Listed below are the department’s full-time professors, as well as a brief overview of their current projects, research interests and areas of expertise. In addition to the department’s eleven full-time lay and monastic professors (專任教授), three honorary professors (名譽教授) and 1 assistant researcher (助理研究員), a number of adjunct professors (兼任教授) are also responsible for some of the department’s courses.

Huimin Bhikshu, President (惠敏校長)

Doctor of Letters, University of Tōkyō (東京大学)

• Yogācāra (唯識學)
• Buddhist Psychology
• Buddhist Meditation
• Sanskrit

Guojaw Shih (釋果肇副校長)

Business Administration, National Chung Hsing University (中興大學)

• Buddhist Monastic Education
• Bodhisattva Precepts
• Courses in Buddhist practice

Guohuei Shih (釋果暉)

Doctor of Letters, Risshō University (立正大學)

• Chan Scritures (漢譯禪經)
• An Shigao (安世高)
• Buddhist Monastic discipline (戒律學)

Bensheng Liao (廖本聖)

MA in Chemistry, Tamkang University, Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies

• Tibetan Language
• Tibetan Buddhist Classics
• Translation Theory

Kuopin Chuang (莊國彬)

Ph.D. in Theology and Religious Studies, Bristol University

• Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism
• Pāḷi Language
• Early Buddhism

Tzung-kuen Wen (溫宗堃)

Ph.D. In Studies in Religion, University of Queensland

• Early Buddhism
• Pāḷi Buddhism
• Theory and Applications of Mindfulness Meditation

Polang Tsai (蔡伯郎)

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Chinese Culture University (中國文化大學)

• vijñaptimātra
• Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism

Guojing Shih (釋果鏡)

Doctor of Letter, Bukkyō University (佛教大学)

• Buddhist Meditation
• Pure Land Buddhism
• Buddhist Monastic Discipline
• History of Chinese Buddhism

Jenjou Hung (洪振洲)

Ph.D. in Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (台灣科技大學)

• Database,
• Digital Archives
• Programming Languages
• Systems Engineering

Jienhong Shih (釋見弘)

Doctor of Letters, Kyūshū University (九州大学)

• Philosophy of Indian Mādhyamika
• Sanskrit
• Tibetan
• Japanese

Weijen Teng (鄧偉仁)

Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Harvard University

• Intellectual History of Chinese Buddhism
• Buddhist Theory of Meditation and Mind
• Theory and Method in Religious Studies
• Sanskrit

Ching Hsuan Mei (梅靜軒)

Ph.D. in Tibetology, University of Bonn

• Classical Tibetan
• History of Tibetan Buddhism
• Tibetan Tantric Studies

Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Doctor of Letters, University of Naples

• Early Buddhist texts (Āgama research group website)
• Khotanese Buddhist texts
• Buddhist philology
• History of Buddhist soteriologies and meditative traditions