Dr Mun-Keat Choong
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
BA (Komazawa, Tokyo), MA (Queensland), PhD (Queensland)
Contact
| Email: | mchoong@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G57 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2087 (or +61 2 6773 2087 overseas) |
| Homepage: | http://www.geocities.com/cmkwk/cmkwk_page.html |
Areas of Teaching
Buddhism: A History
Introduction to World Religions
Research interests
- Early Buddhism in India
- Contemporary Buddhism in Asian societies and the West
- Comparative studies of the Pali and Chinese versions of the early Buddhist canon (including fragmentary Sanskrit texts), particularly, the Samyutta/Samyukta collection
- Current Research
- Early Buddhist Teachings in the Geya-anga (=Sagatha Vagga) and Vyakarana-anga portions of the Pali Samyutta-nikaya and its Chinese counterpart, Samyukta-agama: A comparative study
Publications
Books:
Annotated Translation of Sutras from the Chinese Samyuktagama relevant to the Early Buddhist Teachings on Emptiness and the Middle Way (Lu Ye Chan Si, Johor, 2004).
The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism: A Comparative Study Based on the Sutranga portion of the Pali Samyutta-Nikaya and the Chinese Samyuktagama (Series: Beitrage zur Indologie Band 32; Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2000).
The Notion of Emptiness in Early Buddhism (1995; second revised edition, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1999).
Articles:
"Problems and Prospects of the Chinese Samyuktagama: Its structure and content" (to be published in the series 'East Asia Intercultural Studies - Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien' (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden), ed. Yasuo Ariizumi and Konrad Meisig)
"A comparison of the Pali and Chinese versions of the Brahmana Samyutta, a collection of early Buddhist discourses on the priestly Brahmanas" (Forthcoming)
"A comparison of the Pali and Chinese versions of the Vangisa-thera Samyutta, a collection of early Buddhist discourses on the Venerable Vangisa", Buddhist Studies Review 24 (1), 2007, pp. 35-45.
"A comparison of the Pali and Chinese versions of the Bhikkhu Samyutta, a collection of early Buddhist discourses on monks", Buddhist Studies Review 23 (1), 2006, pp. 61-70.
"A comparison of the Pali and Chinese versions of the Kosala Samyutta, an early Buddhist discourse on King Pasenadi of Kosala", The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies 7, 2006, pp. 21-35.
"The importance of Pali-Chinese comparison in the study of Pali suttas", Khthonios: A Journal for the Study of Religion, vol. II, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 19-26.
"Definitions of Tanha (Craving) in Early Buddhist Sutras", Annotated Translation of Sutras from the Chinese Samyuktagama relevant to the Early Buddhist Teachings on Emptiness and the Middle Way (Lu Ye Chan Si, Johor, 2004), pp. 90-96.
"Historical and Textual Background of Buddhism", Annotated Translation of Sutras from the Chinese Samyuktagama relevant to the Early Buddhist Teachings on Emptiness and the Middle Way (Lu Ye Chan Si, Johor, 2004), pp. 75-89.
"A Discussion on the Determination of the Date of the Historical Buddha", Journal of Indian History, vols. LXXVI-LXXVIII, 1997-1999 (March 2004), pp. 1-6.
"Buddhist Psychotherapy in the Doctrine of No-self in Early Buddhism" (based on Pali and Chinese source texts), The Golden Link, vol. 15 (1996), pp. 43-51.
"Ping Zhang Yuan-chang 'Guanyindashi Bianxing Ji' Yiwen" [Review of Zhang Yuan-chang's article 'Records of the gender-changes of Avalokitesvara'], Chin Jei, vol. 1, No. 10 (1980), pp. 24-26.