Books

1. Hung, J. (Forthcoming, 2026). Between Secularity and Spirituality. Buddhistdoor Press.
2. Hung, J. Between Buddha-nature and Emptiness: The Peak Era of Chinese Buddhist Philosophy. Oxford University Press (Contract Signed)
3. Hung, J. Between Identity and Unity: The Self Within Chinese Oneness Philosophy (Under Review)
4. Hung, J. Meaning of Life in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy (In Progress)
5. Hung, J. AI Buddhas, Transhumanism, and Immortality: Tiantai Spirituality in a Scientific World (In Progress)

1. Hung, J. (Forthcoming). Exploring Challenges in the Neo-Brentanian Account of Awareness. Journal of Consciousness Studies.
2. Hung, J. (2026). Better be a Zombie? The Value of Consciousness in Early Buddhism. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 5: 339–363. DOI: 10.1093/9780198994121.003.0012
3. Hung, J. (2025). We Are the Same Mind! A Study of Zongmi’s Idea of the True Mind. Philosophy East and West, 75:4. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973413
4. Hung, J. (2025). In Search of Qi Immortality: A Study of Heshanggongʼs Commentary on the Daodejing. Religions, 16(3): 383. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030383
5. Hung, J. (2025). Is Emptiness Non-empty? Jizang’s Conception of Buddha-nature. Religions, 16(2), 184. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16020184
6. Hung, J. (2024). Reflexive Awareness and Reflexivity: An Identity Model of Reflexive Awareness with Korta and Perry’s Reflexive-Referential Theory of Content. Synthese. 204:30 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04688-8
7. Hung, J. (2023). Phenomenal Concepts and Animal Consciousness. Philosophical Psychology. 36 (3): 580–600. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2072722
8. Gao J., Leung, H., Wu, W. W. Y., Hung, J., Chang, C., Sik, H. H. (2023). Long-Term Inquiry Meditation Reduces EEG Spectral Dynamics in Self-Schema Processing. Heliyon. 9(9), E20075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20075
9. Hung, J. (2020). Is Dharma-nature Identical to Ignorance? A study of “ji 即” in early Tiantai Buddhism. Asian Philosophy. Issue 30 (4): 307–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2020.1846873
10. Hung, J. (2020). A Gricean Interpretation of Nāgārjuna’s Catuskoti and the No-thesis View. History and Philosophy of Logic. Vol. 41 (3): 217–235. https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2020.1786266
11. Hung, J. (2020). Is Zhuangzi a Wanton? Observation and Transformation of Desires in the Zhuangzi. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. 19 (2): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-020-09723-2
12. Hung, J. (2019). The Theory of the Self in the Zhuangzi: A Strawsonian Interpretation. Philosophy East and West 69:2, 376–394. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/731256
13. Hung, J. (2018). The Early Yogācāra Theory of No-self. Asian Philosophy. 28.4: 316–331. https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2018.1543055

14. Wang X., Gao W., Hung J., and Tam W. Y. (2014). Optical Activities of Large-area SU8 Micro-spirals Fabricated by Multi-beam Holographic Lithography., Appl. Opt. 53, 2425–2430. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.53.002425
15. Hung J., Gao W., and Tam W. Y. (2011). Optical Activities of Micro-spiral Photonic Crystals Fabricated by Multi-beam Holographic Lithography. J. Opt. 13, 095101. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8978/13/9/095102/meta
16. Hung J., Chan P. S., Sun C., Ho C. W. and Tam W. Y. (2010). Doubly Slanted Layer Structures in Holographic Gelatin Emulsions: Solar Concentrators. J. Opt. 12 045104. https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/12/4/045104
17. Hung J., Kok M., Tam W. Y. (2009). Complete Photonic Bandgaps in the Visible Range from Spherical Layer Structures in Dichromate Gelatin Emulsions. App. Phys. Lett. 94, 014102. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3064165

18. Hung, J. (Forthcoming). From Understanding to Contemplating Emptiness: Jizang’s Notion of Zhengguan 正觀. In “Buddhist Philosophy between India and China: From Madhyamaka to Sanlun.” Rafal Stepien (Ed.). Oxford University Press.
19. Hung, J. (Forthcoming). Immortality and Human Enhancements From Zhu Xi’s Perspective.” In “Dao Companion to Confucian Applied Ethics.” Kam-Por Yu, Julia Tao, Rina Camus (Eds.). Springer Nature.
20. Hung J. (Forthcoming). An Analysis of Jizang’s Idea of Reality. In “Reading Primary Sources in Asian Philosophies.” Malcolm Keating (Ed.). Bloomsbury.
21. Hung, J. (2026). Introspection in Early Buddhism. In “The Routledge Handbook of Introspection.” Anna Giustina (Ed.). pp. 94–109. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003393269-8
22. Hung J. (2024). Evil, Suffering, and Meditation in the Tiantai School. In Volume II, “Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day.” Selusi Ambrogio & Dawid Rogacz (Eds.). pp. 77–86. Bloomsbury.
23. Hung, J. (2011). The Three-fold Interpretation of Chih-I’s ‘Ignorance Equals Nature of Dharma’ (in Chinese). In “Dialogues in Chinese, Japanese and Korean T'ien-T'ai Buddhism.” Tian Xiang Ma (Ed.). pp. 150–165. Beijing, Renmin Publisher.
24. Hughes J. J, Sarbacker S., Tormen F., Hung, J. (Under Review). Buddhism, AI, and Human Enhancement. In “Through a Buddhist Lens: Buddhist Perspectives on Consciousness, Evolution, and AI.” Chiara Mascarello and Francesco Tormen (Eds.).
25. Adam, M., Tormen, F., Hung, J., Goodman, C. (Under Review). Can AI systems be Phenomenally Conscious? In “Through a Buddhist Lens: Buddhist Perspectives on Consciousness, Evolution, and AI.” Chiara Mascarello and Francesco Tormen (Eds.).

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