Tse-fu Kuan
Professor
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 Education D.Phil. in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford 
 Teaching Specialties Major world religions, British History and Culture, Zhuangzi 
Phone (03) 463-8800 ext. 2140 
Email tkuan@saturn.yzu.edu.tw
Publications
▊Books:
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2024.12) An Annotated Translation of Pali Sutta Literature: The Aṅguttara Nikāya, vol. 2. Taipei: Tripitaka Text Publishing Company.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2016.11) An Annotated Translation of Pali Sutta Literature: The Aṅguttara Nikāya, vol. 1. Taipei: Linking Publishing Company.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2008.01) Mindfulness in Early Buddhism: New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources. London and New York: Routledge.
▊Journal articles:
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2023.08) “Is All Due to Karma? The Buddha’s Stance.” Philosophy East and West, volume 73, number 3, pp. 653–676. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2022.10) “From Joseph to Aṅgulimāla: A Buddhist Story with a Biblical Motif.” Archiv orientální, volume 90, number 2, pp. 275–308. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2021.09) “Compassion and Merit in Early Buddhism with the Focus on the Aṅguttara Nikāya and the Ekottarika Āgama.” Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, number 21 (2020), pp. 53–82.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2021.02) “Moggallāna’s Journey to Another Buddha-field: How a Mahāyāna Narrative Crept into the Ekottarika Āgama (T 125).” Religions of South Asia, volume 13, number 1 (2019), pp. 24–50. (ESCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2020.06) “Conscious of Everything or Consciousness Without Objects? A Paradox of Nirvana.” Journal of Indian Philosophy, volume 48, issue 3, pp. 329–351. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan and Roderick S. Bucknell (2019.12) “The Structure and Formation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya and the Ekottarika Āgama.” Buddhist Studies Review, volume 36, number 2, pp. 141–166. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2019.03) “Some Reflections on Translating the Pali Texts: Literary Conventions, Buddhist Thought, Cultural Background and Textual History.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 72, number 1, pp. 1–23. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2018.12) “Equal-headed (samasīsin): An Abhidharma Innovation and Commentarial Developments.” Buddhist Studies Review, volume 35, number 1-2, pp. 135–160. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2018.06) “A Historical Perspective on Contemporary Buddhism and Christianity in Taiwan: Beginning with a Study Assignment for a General Education Course.” Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies, volume 17, number 1, pp. 1–50. (THCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2017.12) “From Sūtra to Abhidharma: An Important Transition in the History of Indian Buddhist Literature.” Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies, number 53, pp. 135–177. (THCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2017. 06) “Review of Antonello Palumbo, An Early Chinese Commentary on the Ekottarika-āgama: The Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 and the History of the Translation of the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 137, number 2, pp. 444–448. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2015.10) “Tradition and Adaptation: Translating Indic Buddhist Texts into Modern Chinese.” Archiv Orientální, volume 83, number 2, pp. 281–316. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2015.03) “Abhidhamma Interpretations of ‘Persons’ (puggala): with Particular Reference to the Aṅguttara Nikāya.” Journal of Indian Philosophy, volume 43, issue 1, pp. 31–60. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2013.12) “Legends and Transcendence: Sectarian Affiliations of the Ekottarika Āgama in Chinese Translation.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 133, number 4, pp. 607–634. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2013.10) “The Sautrāntika Theories of Life-Continuum in Light of Karma.” Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, number 14, pp. 49–75.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2013.02) “The Pavāraṇā Sutta and ‘liberation in both ways’ as against ‘liberation by wisdom’.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 76, issue 1, pp. 49–73. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2012.05) “Cognitive Operations in Buddhist Meditation: Interface with Western Psychology.” Contemporary Buddhism, volume 13, number 1, pp. 35–60. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2012.05) “A Geographical Perspective on Sectarian Affiliations of the Ekottarika Āgama in Chinese Translation (T 125).” Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, volume 2, pp. 179–208.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2010.02) “The Functions of Attention in Cognitive Processes: A Comparative Study of Buddhism and Psychology.” Buddhism and Science, volume 11, number 1, pp. 38–48.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2009.11) “Rethinking Non-Self: A New Perspective from the Ekottarika-āgama.” Buddhist Studies Review, volume 26, number 2, pp. 155–175. (A&HCI since 2013)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2009.02) “Saññā and Vedanā in Buddhism in Comparison with Cognition and Emotion in Psychology.” Buddhism and Science, volume 10, number 1, pp. 36–42.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2007.06) “A Textual Analysis of the Kāyagatāsati Sutta.” Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies, volume 6, number 2, pp. 149–174.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2007.06) “An Investigation into the Theoretical Foundations and Congruence of the Kāyagatāsati and the Four Satipaṭṭhānas on the Basis of Buddhist Analysis of the Experiential World.” Satyābhisamaya, number 41, pp. 5–32.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2007.05) “Annotated Translation of the Chinese Version of the Kāyagatāsati Sutta.” Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, number 8, pp. 175–194.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2005.06) “Clarification on Feelings in Buddhist Dhyāna/Jhāna Meditation.” Journal of Indian Philosophy, volume 33, issue 3, pp. 285–319. (A&HCI)
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2005.03) “Saññā and Sati.” Satyābhisamaya, number 32, pp.192–224.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2001.11) “The Process of Formation of Manas-consciousness in Consciousness-only Thought.” Dharma Light Monthly, number 146, pp. 2, 4.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2001.06) “The Four Satipaṭṭhānas in Early Buddhism.” Satyābhisamaya, number 17, pp. 154–209.
▊Book chapters:
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2021.11) “What is ‘mindfulness’ in Buddhism? And does it differ from modern secular ‘mindfulness’?” Buddhism in Five Minutes, ed. Elizabeth J. Harris. Sheffield, UK and Bristol, CT, USA: Equinox Publishing, pp. 130–135.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2021.05) “Evolving Portrayals of Sāriputta and Moggallāna: Psychic Potency vis-à-vis Wisdom and Concentration.” Illuminating the Dharma: Buddhist Studies in Honour of Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti, ed. Toshiichi Endo. Hong Kong: Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong, pp. 269–293.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2020.07) “An Introduction to the Diamond Sutra: Beginning with the four Āgamas.” An Introduction to the Classics of the East, ed. Jia-Chi Liang. Taoyuan: College of General Studies, Yuan Ze University, pp. 109–120.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2015.12) “Holiness, Reason, and Conscience: Reflections on the Three Major World Religions.” A New Perspective on Interdisciplinary Research of General Education, ed. A-Ron Liu and Tse-fu Kuan. Taipei: Shita Bookstore, pp. 45–67.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2015.09) “Mindfulness in Similes in Early Buddhist Literature.” Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness, ed. E. Y. Shonin, W. Van Gordon and N. N. Singh. New York: Springer, pp. 267–285.
  • Kuan Tse-fu (2013.11) An English translation of Fascicles 14–16 of the Zhong Ahanjing, included in The Madhyama Āgama (Middle-length Discourses), Volume I, ed. Marcus Bingenheimer et al., Berkeley: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai America, Inc., pp. 447–539.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2013.10) “Mahāyāna Elements and Mahāsāṃghika Traces in the Ekottarika-āgama.” Research on the Ekottarika-āgama (Taishō 125), ed. Dhammadinnā. Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation, pp. 133–194.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2012.04) “Samatha and Vipassanā in Early Buddhism.” From Practice to Liberation: An Anthology of Pali Buddhist texts, ed. Chi-lin Tsai. New Taipei: Nanshan Buddhist Culture Press, pp. 203–236.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2009.11) “Organizational Communication and Coordination: Buddhist Viewpoints and Exemplary Experiences.” Collected Papers on Research into Traditional Cultures vis-à-vis Operating and Management, ed. Kao-ping Chang. Taipei: Le Jin Books Ltd., pp.143–159.
  • Tse-fu Kuan (2009.07) “Multi-faceted Teaching of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms” Glocal Culture and Classics Education, ed. Lin-Wen Wang. Taoyuan: College of General Studies, Yuan Ze University, pp.193–206.
  • Professional Employment

Adjunct assistant professor,General Education Center, National University of Kaohsiung 

  • Area of Specialties :

Early Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Religions and Philosophy  

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