学愚教授

中国 香港中文大学禅与人类文明研究中心主任

出席环节：主题演讲

演讲题目：生命如戏

      美国爱荷华大学哲学博士，现任香港中文大学文化及宗教研究系助理教授。

      曾就学于中国佛学院、斯里兰卡肯拉尼亚大学、日本东京大学、美国普林斯顿大学和爱荷华大学，并任职于美国格林内尔学院；主要从事原始佛教、中国佛教、人间佛教思想和历史等方面的研究。

      自2004年开始，学愚教授任职于香港中文大学，2006年，获香港中文大学青年学者研究奖；2007年，获法国远东学院访问学者奖；2007年至2008年间，为哈佛大学访问学者，2009年，为德国歌德学院访问学者；2008年至2014年，担任人间佛教研究中心主任，主编《人间佛教研究丛书》《人间佛教研究期刊》，并任《宗风》杂志主编；2013年7月，创立中国佛教学会，并任首届会长；2015年起，担任禅与人类文明研究中心主任。

最近出版的作品包括Buddhism，War and  Nationalism（2005），《人间佛教的社会和政治参与》（2006），《佛教、战争以及民族主义》（2012），《人间佛教：星云大师如是说、如是行》（ 2012），《中国佛教的社会主义改造》（2014），以及其它七十多篇学术论文。

Professor Xue Yu

Director, Centre for the Study of Chan Buddhism and Human Civilization

Of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

Session Involved: Keynote Speech

Speech Topic: Life Is Like A Play

Professor Xue Yu is PhD of philosophy in The University of Lowa. He is currently the assistant professor of department of Cultural and Religious Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Xue Yu used to study at The Buddhist Academy of China, University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, the University of Tokyo in Japan and Princeton University and The University of Iowa in the USA. He has also worked at Grinnell College during his time in the USA. His study mainly focused on primitive Buddhism, Buddhism in China, the Buddhist thoughts and history in the human world.

Professor Xue Yu has been working at the CUKH since 2004. He obtained CUHK’s Young Researcher Award in 2006, and the visiting scholar award of l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient à Hanoi, EFEO in 2007. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University between 2007 and 2008, and at the German Goethe Institute in 2008.

Professor Xue Yu has been working as the director of the Centre for the Humanistic Buddhism in CUKH, and has been the chief editor of The Book Series of Humanistic Buddhism Studies and The Periodicals of Humanistic Buddhism. He is now the editor of the magazine Zong Feng. In July 2013, Professor Xue Yu established the Chinese Buddhism Association and served as the first chairman.

His recent publishing includes Buddhism, War and Nationalism in 2005, The Social and Political Participation of Humanistic Buddhism in 2006, Humanistic Buddhism: Grand Master Hsing Yun Says and Does in 2012, The Socialist Transformation of Chinese Buddhism in 2014, and over 70 pieces of academic papers.