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Click here to check out Tao Jiang's personal website. Click here to check out Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies website. Tao Jiang’s primary research interest is Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy (Madhyamaka and Yogācāra), classical Chinese philosophy (Confucianism and Daoism) and cross-cultural philosophy. In his book, Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind (Hawaii, 2006), he proposes that a cross-cultural approach to ideas needs to contextualize those ideas first in their indigenous backgrounds and then to recontextualize them by bringing them into the new comparative setting. The contextualization and recontextualization should be carried out by examining their contents (what), rationales (why) and ways of formulation (how), both respectively and comparatively. In this respect, Contexts and Dialogue brings together three conceptions of the subliminal mind as the book moves through a series of contexts, from the context of seventh-century Yogācāra Buddhism to that of twentieth-century modern psychology and eventually to the unfolding contemporary context of increasing cross-cultural dialogical engagement. His comparative study has shown that the Yogācāra notion of ālayavijñāna (the storehouse consciousness) and the unconscious in modern psychology operate within vastly different paradigms with regard to personhood, shedding new light on the cultures that have produced them. He is the translator of A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, and is co-editor of an anthology, The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip (Routledge, 2013), with Philip J. Ivanhoe. Jiang's new book, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He is working on another book manuscript on Linji's Chan/Zen philosophy. Jiang is an associate graduate faculty member of Philosophy Department. He is co-directing the Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP) with Dean Zimmerman of Philosophy Department and Stephen Angle of Wesleyan University. He co-chairs Buddhist Philosophy Unit under the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and is a co-chair of the Neo-Confucian Studies Seminar at Columbia University. He is serving on several editorial boards of Asian philosophy journals. |
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The Reception and
Rendition of Freud in China (Routledge 2013) |
Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind
(Hawaii 2006) |
Daodu Rongge
(Lixu 1997) |
Selected Articles |
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Leadership and Services to the Profession |
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Professional Memberships |
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