Jizhang Yi

Dr. Jizhang Yi (Postdoc, Harvard; PhD, U of T) is Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute for Humanistic Buddhist Thought & Practice at Trinity College, University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of Religious Studies, Comparative Theology, and Comparative Philosophy, with particular interests in Chan/Zen Buddhism, Humanistic Buddhism, and Kierkegaard's existential philosophy. His scholarship articulates Existential Hermeneutics as a philosophical account of transformative self-understanding, exploring questions of truth, selfhood, meaning, and ethical-religious transformation across Buddhist and Christian traditions. His recent work also explores the implications of Existential Hermeneutics for artificial intelligence. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Buddhist-Christian Studies, and books published by Bloomsbury Academic, Springer Nature, and McGill-Queen's University Press.