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Ernest Billings (Billy) Brewster is currently lecturer at Iona College, Department of Religious Studies. He received his doctorate from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2018. His research interests include combining philology with a doctrinal-historical approach to key ideological developments in early medieval Chinese Buddhism. He is currently working on a manuscript on Buddhist conceptualizations of death and dying, titled, The Yoga of Dying.

Publications:

Brewster, Ernest B. “Different Yet No Different: Chuandeng (1554–1627) on the Two Aspects of Thusness (Tathatā).” In From Tiantai to Hiei: Transborder and Transcultural Transmission of Tiantai/Chontae/Tendai Buddhism and Its Impacts on East Asian Societies, Chen, Jinhua and Song Wang, eds. (Singapore: World Scholastic Publishers, forthcoming in 2022).

“The Non-Duality of Goodness and Badness: Chuandeng (1554–1628) on the Badness Inherent in Reality.” Fo Guang Journal of Buddhist Studies 佛光學報  (forthcoming in 2022).

Ernest Billings (Billy) Brewster. "Why Change Is the Only Constant: The Teachings on Momentariness Found in Xuanzang’s Translation of the Abhidharma Treatises of Saṅghabhadra." Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies 66, no. 0 (2021): 1-49

Brewster, Ernest B. 白立冰. “Shengming yanxu: Xuanzang dui Shiqin he Zhongxian youguan shengming yanxu de wenxian de fanyi” 生命延續：玄奘對世親和眾賢有關生命延續的文獻的翻譯. Translated by Ni Sheng 倪勝. In Cong Chang’an dao Nalantuo: Xuanzang (602?­-664) de shengping yu yichan 從長安到那爛陀：玄奘的生平與遺產, edited by Chen Jinhua 陳金華, et al., 691–699 (Singapore: World Scholastic, 2020).

Brewster, Ernest B. “Survivability: Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra on the Continuity of the Life of a Sentient Being as Translated by Xuanzang.” Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 3.1 (September 2020): 167-224.

Brewster, Ernest B. "What is Our Shared Sensory World?: Ming Dynasty Debates on Yogācāra versus Huayan Doctrines." Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 31 (2018): 117-170.