William Chu

Faculty Profile

Dr. William Chu is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of the West. He served as a contributing translator for The Madhyamāgama: Middle Length Discourses (2013), and a contributing author for the Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (2013). He has also translated substantial parts of the Fayuan zhulin for the Numata Center translation of the Chinese Buddhist canon.

Dr. Chu has been a Foguang University Research Fellow since 2010. He is also the founder of the Sumana Forest Mediation Center. At University of the West, he is former Chair of the Faculty Senate.

Selected Publications

Chu, William, contributing translator. The Madhyamāgama: Middle Length Discourses. Edited by Marcus Bingenheimer, Bhikkhu Analayo, and Roderick S. Bucknell. Berkeley, CA: BDK America, Inc., 2013.

Chu, William, contributing author. Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Edited by Robert E. Buswell, and Donald S. Lopez. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Chu, William. “The timing of Yogācāra resurgence in the Ming dynasty (1368–1643).” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 33, no. 1-2 (2010): 5-25.

Chu, William. “Syncretism reconsidered: The Four Eminent Monks and their syncretistic styles.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (2006): 63-86.