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Research Interests:
My research interests revolve around the embodiment of the mind. I examine the embodied mind through the lens of Chinese Buddhism and the lens of phenomenology.
For the M.A. thesis, I focused on the study of Hongzhou Chan and its impact on Chinese literature. Sharing the common rule of “self-nature is originally perfectly complete” with other schools of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism, Hongzhou School particularly addresses two distinguished teachings: “The embodied mind is Buddha” and “the embodied mind is the Way.”
For the Ph.D. study, my project is on studying the constitutive and causal role of the body in consciousness from a phenomenological approach. With the rapid development of neurosciences and embodied cognitive science, views that draw sharp distinctions between the body and the mind have gradually been abandoned. Yet, new concepts need to be coined better to capture the intricate relation between body and mind. I will draw on phenomenology (especially Husserl and Merleau-Ponty) to explore questions such as, “What is the nature of the embodied mind? How far can we push this notion (eg. a bodied unconsciousness in a dream state)? Can we build a satisfactory unified picture entailing the dual, contradictory aspects such as the mind/body subject/object?”
Publication
“科学社会主义、人民共和与世界“大同”—从马克思的社会理想反观‘中国梦’” ”Marxism, People’s Republic and the Ideal of Great Harmony,” Journal of Politics College of Shandong, vol.5, 2013.
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