Charles Muller (religious scholar)

Albert Charles Muller (* 1953 in Long Island , New York ) is a professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology , Faculty of Letters , at the University of Tokyo ( 東京大学 , Tōkyō daigaku ). He is particularly known for his translations of Buddhist , Daoist and Confucian literature from East Asia into English.

Muller studied Literature , East Asian Religions and Korean Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . His doctoral thesis on the literature of different countries and theories of literary criticism leading to a Ph. D. in comparative literature was accepted there in 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he worked as an assistant professor at the Japanese Tōyō-Gakuen University ( 東洋学園大学 , Tōyō gakuen daigaku ), from 1997 to 2008 as a full professor. In 2008 he moved to the University of Tokyo.

Muller's main research interests are general religious studies , Chinese philosophy , Indian philosophy , Buddhist studies and, in particular, Korean Buddhism . He has researched the writings of the Korean monk scholar Wonhyo (元曉, 617–686) very intensively and, based on this, the variant of the Buddhist philosophy of Yogācāra that is widespread in East Asia .

Muller's initiatives and contributions to numerous digitization projects in the field of East Asian Buddhism are particularly outstanding , including the now famous Digital Dictionary of Buddhism , a continuous lexicon of numerous Buddhist terms, started in 1986 . Muller is also the founder and editor of the Buddhist Scholars Information Network , which became part of H-Net in 2001 under the name H-Buddhism .

bibliography

(English language books only)

The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation. SUNY Press, 1999. ISBN 0-7914-4102-4 .
Patterns of Religion [co-author]. Wadsworth Pub., 1999. ISBN 0-534-50649-6 .
Tao Te Ching . Translated by A. Charles Muller with an introduction by Yi-Ping Ong. Barnes and Noble, 2005. ISBN 1-59308-256-8 .
A Korean Contribution to the Zen Canon: The Oga Hae Seorui (Commentaries of Five Masters on the Diamond Sūtra). Oxford University Press, 2005.
Living Yogācāra: An Introduction to Consciousness-only Buddhism. From Tagawa Shun'ei, translated with an introduction by A. Charles Muller. Wisdom Publications, 2009.
Wonhyo's Philosophy of Mind. Edited with Cuong T. Nguyen. University of Hawai'i Press, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME	Muller, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Muller, Albert Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American religious scholar, professor of East Asian thought
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Long Island , New York