Lee, Sangyop Assistant Professor
Appointed at SNU : 2023
Major : Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist intellectual history
Location : Bldg. 6, Room 424
Tel : 02-880-6209
Email : sangyoplee@snu.ac.kr
Research
Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist intellectual history
Selected publications
— “Wŏnhyo’s Understanding of the Chinese Buddhist Theory of the Shen 神: From Shen bumie 神不滅 to the Dasheng qi xin lun 大乘起信論.” In New Studies on the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna, edited by Tao Jin and John Makeham. Forthcoming in 2025.
— “Buddha-nature.” In Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy, edited by Brook Ziporyn and Stephen C. Walker. Forthcoming in 2025.
— “The Mundanities of the Bodhisattva Path: The ‘Bodhisattva Prātimokṣa’ and the Bodhisattva Ideal on the Ground in the Middle Period Mahāyāna.” In Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison, edited by Nicholas Witkowski and Charles DiSimone, 303–41. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2024.
— 「『優婆塞五戒威儀経』所収の菩薩戒について—Bodhisattvabhūmi菩薩戒の漢訳異本の証拠—」.『印度学仏教学研究』72.2 (2024): 67–72 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.72.2_902
— “Empty Reality, Luminous Mind: The Metaphysics of ‘One Reality’ and ‘One Mind’ in Shi Sengwei’s 釋僧衛 ‘Shizhu jing hanzhu xu’ 十住經含注序.” T’oung Pao 109 (2023): 250-307. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10903004
— “Jizang’s Anti-realist Theory of Truth: A Modal Logical Understanding of Universal Affirmation through Universal Negation.” Philosophy East and West 73.2 (2023): 307–25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pew.2023.a898070
— 「釈道安の長安移住年次の再考—「比丘大戒序」等に見える木星紀年法の分析を通して—」. 『印度学仏教学研究』71.2 (2023): 193–197 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.71.2_750
— Review of Rikuchō, Zui, Tō Bukkyō tenkaishi 六朝隋唐仏教展開史 (The Evolution of Chinese Buddhism during the Six Dynasties, Sui, and Tang Periods) by Funayama Tōru 船山徹 (Kyoto: Hōzōkan, 2019). The Eastern Buddhist: Third Series 2.1 (2022): 97–100. https://doi.org/10.15070/00011243
— 「僧衛「十住経含注序」の「一心」概念について—『大乗起信論』の「一心」概念との関連を中心に—」. 『印度学仏教学研究』 70.2 (2022): 157–160 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.70.2_882
— “The Bodhisattva Prātimokṣa of the Youposai wu jie weiyi jing 優婆塞五戒威儀經: Its Textual Provenance and Historical Significance.” The Eastern Buddhist 49 (2021): 39–80. https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/9684 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48711038
— 「宝唱『名僧伝』に見られる「師」・「苦節」の区別について」. 『印度学仏教学研究』 69.2 (2021): 190–3 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.69.2_789
— “The Invention of the ‘Eminent Monk’: Understanding the Biographical Craft of the Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳 through the Mingseng zhuan 名僧傳.” T’oung Pao 106 (2020): 87–170. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27067554 https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10612P04
— “The Emergence of the ‘Five-Terrace Mountain’ Cult in Korea.” In The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Susan Andrews, Jinhua Chen, and Guang Kuan, 385–419. Leiden: Brill, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004419872_018
— “Lushan Huiyuan.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. 2, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Vincent Eltschinger, Richard Bowring, and Michael Radich, 711–21. Leiden: Brill, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1163/2467-9666_enbo_COM_2101
Selected publications
— “Wŏnhyo’s Understanding of the Chinese Buddhist Theory of the Shen 神: From Shen bumie 神不滅 to the Dasheng qi xin lun 大乘起信論.” In New Studies on the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna, edited by Tao Jin and John Makeham. Forthcoming in 2025.
— “Buddha-nature.” In Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy, edited by Brook Ziporyn and Stephen C. Walker. Forthcoming in 2025.
— “The Mundanities of the Bodhisattva Path: The ‘Bodhisattva Prātimokṣa’ and the Bodhisattva Ideal on the Ground in the Middle Period Mahāyāna.” In Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana: A Festschrift for Paul Harrison, edited by Nicholas Witkowski and Charles DiSimone, 303–41. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2024.
— 「『優婆塞五戒威儀経』所収の菩薩戒について—Bodhisattvabhūmi菩薩戒の漢訳異本の証拠—」.『印度学仏教学研究』72.2 (2024): 67–72 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.72.2_902
— “Empty Reality, Luminous Mind: The Metaphysics of ‘One Reality’ and ‘One Mind’ in Shi Sengwei’s 釋僧衛 ‘Shizhu jing hanzhu xu’ 十住經含注序.” T’oung Pao 109 (2023): 250-307. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10903004
— “Jizang’s Anti-realist Theory of Truth: A Modal Logical Understanding of Universal Affirmation through Universal Negation.” Philosophy East and West 73.2 (2023): 307–25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pew.2023.a898070
— 「釈道安の長安移住年次の再考—「比丘大戒序」等に見える木星紀年法の分析を通して—」. 『印度学仏教学研究』71.2 (2023): 193–197 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.71.2_750
— Review of Rikuchō, Zui, Tō Bukkyō tenkaishi 六朝隋唐仏教展開史 (The Evolution of Chinese Buddhism during the Six Dynasties, Sui, and Tang Periods) by Funayama Tōru 船山徹 (Kyoto: Hōzōkan, 2019). The Eastern Buddhist: Third Series 2.1 (2022): 97–100. https://doi.org/10.15070/00011243
— 「僧衛「十住経含注序」の「一心」概念について—『大乗起信論』の「一心」概念との関連を中心に—」. 『印度学仏教学研究』 70.2 (2022): 157–160 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.70.2_882
— “The Bodhisattva Prātimokṣa of the Youposai wu jie weiyi jing 優婆塞五戒威儀經: Its Textual Provenance and Historical Significance.” The Eastern Buddhist 49 (2021): 39–80. https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/9684 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48711038
— 「宝唱『名僧伝』に見られる「師」・「苦節」の区別について」. 『印度学仏教学研究』 69.2 (2021): 190–3 (L). https://doi.org/10.4259/ibk.69.2_789
— “The Invention of the ‘Eminent Monk’: Understanding the Biographical Craft of the Gaoseng zhuan 高僧傳 through the Mingseng zhuan 名僧傳.” T’oung Pao 106 (2020): 87–170. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27067554 https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10612P04
— “The Emergence of the ‘Five-Terrace Mountain’ Cult in Korea.” In The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Susan Andrews, Jinhua Chen, and Guang Kuan, 385–419. Leiden: Brill, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004419872_018
— “Lushan Huiyuan.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. 2, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Vincent Eltschinger, Richard Bowring, and Michael Radich, 711–21. Leiden: Brill, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1163/2467-9666_enbo_COM_2101
Education
- 2021 PhD, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
- 2013 MA, Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University
- 2010 BA, Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University
Career
- 2021-2023 Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Heidelberg
- 2020-2021 Dissertation Prize Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
- 2020 Teaching Affiliate, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
- 2019 Stanford Center at Peking University Pre-doctoral Fellow, Peking University
- 2019 Chung-Hwa Graduate Research Fellow, Chung-Hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies
- 2016-2017 Digital Humanities Graduate Research Fellow, Center for Textual and Spatial Analysis, Stanford University
