Lin, Chen-kuo

Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University


  • August 2018. University of British Columbia

Dr. Chen-kuo Lin 林鎮國 is a Distinguished Professor in both the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies at National Chengchi University. He earned Ph.D. from Temple University in 1991. His research interest includes Buddhist philosophy (Buddhist logic and epistemology, Mādhyamika, Yogācāra), Chinese philosophy (Neo-Confucianism, Daoism), and comparative philosophy. Dr Lin’s research is on the reception of Dignāga’s Ālambanaparikṣā during the late Ming and Edo Japan and on Dharmapalā’s commentary on Vasubandhu’s Viṃśikā. Both are studies in Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy.