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    On the Early Buddhist Attitude Toward Metaphysics
    Journal of Indian Philosophy 50 (1): 143-162. 2022.
    Buddhist scholars in the West broadly agree with the proposition that Buddhism has a philosophical tradition, in many respects comparable to Western ones, while many claim that it also has a practical or empirical dimension that Western philosophies, especially the analytic tradition, lack. There is also a scholarly consensus that an implicit metaphysical system serves as the foundation for the doctrines and practices of early Buddhism as represented in the Pāli suttas. However, Buddhist scholar…Read more
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    Computer-assisted Analysis of Zhu Fonian’s Original Mahayana Sutras
    with Michael Radich
    Buddhist Studies Review 38 (2). 2021.
    In her 2010 study of the Shi zhu duan jie jing T309, Jan Nattier found that several passages in T309 were copied from earlier Chinese Buddhist texts. She thus proposed that T309 is not a translation from an Indian text, but a “forgery” by Zhu Fonian. Extending Nattier’s analysis with the help of TACL, a tool for computational textual analysis, we conducted a more thorough analysis of Zhu Fonian’s four Mahayana texts, namely, T309, the Pusa chu tai jing T384, the Zhongyin jin T385, and the Pusa y…Read more
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    Exploiting reverse target-side contexts for neural machine translation via asynchronous bidirectional decoding
    with Jinsong Su, Xiangwen Zhang, Yue Qin, Junfeng Yao, and Yang Liu
    Artificial Intelligence 277 (C): 103168. 2019.
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    Notes on the Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793
    with Michael Radich
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 143 (4): 881-902. 2023.
    The Fo yi jing 佛醫經 T793, a short text, discusses physical and mental health, presenting its content as the teachings of the Buddha. The Taishō presents the text as translated by Zhu Lüyan 竺律炎 and Zhi Qian 支謙. We survey bibliographic records to propose that this attribution is unreliable. Using computer assisted analysis, we locate passages in the text possibly borrowed from early Chinese sources, among them most notably An Shigao’s 安世高 Jiu heng jing 九橫經 T150A(31). These findings indicate that …Read more
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    The wisdom of Confucius
    with Yutang Confucius, Hongming Sima, and Gu
    H. Hamilton. 1938.
    Presents the life and social ethics of the great Chinese sage.