Zhihua Yao received his PhD from Boston University. He is presently Professor in Department of Philosophy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests cover Buddhist philosophy, Indian philosophy, philosophy of religion, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind. His publications include Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not (Bloomsbury Academic 2020), Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion (co-edited with Ithamar Theodor, Lexington Books 2014), The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition (Routledge 2005), and numerous journal articles and book chapters.

1. 佛教哲学
2. 印度哲学
3. 宗教哲学
4. 现象学
5. 心智哲学

2026

• “Consciousness”. Brook Ziporyn and Stephen C. Walker (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy, pp. 322-333. Routledge 2026.

2025

• “Self, Mind, and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections”. Kai Marchal and Ellie Hua Wang (eds.), Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy: Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives, pp. 183-194. Routledge 2025.
• 〈唯识学派的外境批判〉，《华文哲学百科》（2025 版本），王一奇（编）。URL=http://mephilosophy.ccu.edu.tw/entry.php?entry_name=唯识学派的外境批判。

2024

• “Human Conditions: Chan Buddhist Perspective”. Jerzy Nawojowski (ed.), Amor y compasión. Budismo Chan/Zen y espiritualidad carmelitana, pp. 21-32. Spain: MONTE CARMELO, 2024.

• 〈「依托施设」与「假名」〉. 《中国哲学与文化》 第21卷 1-28页. 上海: 上海古籍出版社

2023

• 〈「本来无一物」：《坛经》中的空性思想〉，郑吉雄 编《古典今情：跨越时空的经典阅读与赏析》，339—364页，香港中文大学出版社 2023年
• “Beyond Self-Representationalism: A Neo-Dignāgian Theory of Consciousness”. S. Geniusas (ed.), Varieties of Self-Awareness: New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy. Springer, 2023, pp. 213-224.
• 〈何以知道我们有意识? ——人工智能、意识哲学与佛学〉《北京大学人文社会科学研究院通讯》第30期（2023年），97-99页

2022

• “Effective Action (arthakriyā), Activity (kāritra) and Non-activity (nirvyāpāra)”. Journal of Buddhist Philosophy 4 (2022): 7-44.
• “Beingness and Isness: On the Chinese Translation of Sein“. J.Q. Wang & S.H. Kwok (eds) Heidegger in China and Japan. Königshausen & Neumann, 2022.

2021

• “Yogācāra Buddhism in China”. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021).
• 〈空与假：以《中论颂》第24品第18颂为中心〉《哲学分析》12.3 (2021): 4-26.
• 〈论意识及其所缘〉(李志璋 译)《唯识研究》7 (2021), 3-24.

2020

• Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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Google Books

• 《自证: 意识的反身性》(许伟 余振邦 译) 上海：东方出版中心 2020.
• “Mental Consciousness and Its Objects”. Mark Siderits, Ching Keng, and John Spackman (eds.) Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue (Brill 2020), 275-304.
• “Time, History, and Buddhism”. Journal of Japanese Philosophy 6.1 (2020): 95-110.
• 〈太虚与国家社会主义〉《无碍法界 正教弘传: 人间佛教在东亚与东南亚的传布》陈剑锽 编 (香港中文大学人间佛教研究中心 2020), 698-713.

2019

• “Teaching Buddhism as Philosophy”. The American Philosophical Association Newsletter 18.2 (2019): 29.

2017

• “Vasubandhu’s Arguments for the Cognition of Nonexistent Objects”. Joerg Tuske (ed.) Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics (Bloomsbury Academic 2017), 397-416.
• “Development of the Appreciative Joy Scale”, by Xianglong Zeng, Ran Liao, Ruirui Zhang, Tian P. S. Oei, Zhihua Yao, Freedom Y. K. Leung, Xiangping Liu. Mindfulness (Springer) 8.2 (2017): 286-299.
• 〈无与空、无为与涅槃：道家与佛教哲学的比较研究〉《融合之迹：佛教与中国传统》贾晋华 编 (上海人民出版社 2017), 3-18.
• 《梵与道 : 印中哲学和宗教比较研究》伊萨玛‧泰奥多 姚治华 编; 叶首德 译 北京: 宗教文化出版社 2017.
• 〈一、水与宇宙生成论〉《梵与道: 印中哲学和宗教比较研究》伊萨玛‧泰奥多 姚治华 编 (北京: 宗教文化出版社 2017), 3-22.

2016

• 〈中观哲学与佛教的生死观〉《中外医学哲学》14.2 (2016): 93-96.

2015

• “Daoism and Buddhism”. Xiaogan Liu (ed.) Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy (Springer 2015), 513-526.
• “Do Meditative Objects Exist?” Dhammajoti (ed.) Buddhist Meditative Praxis: traditional teachings & modern applications (Centre of Buddhist Studies, the University of Hong Kong 2015), 211-220.

2014

• Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion. Co-edited with Ithamar Theodor. Lexington Books, 2014.

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• “One, Water, and Cosmogony: Reflections on the Ṛgveda X.129 and the Taiyi sheng shui”. Ithamar Theodor and Zhihua Yao (eds.) Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion (Lexington Books 2014), 3-18.
• “The Cognition of Nonexistent Objects: Five Yogācāra Arguments”. Jeeloo Liu and Douglas Berger (eds.) Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (Routledge 2014), 133-147.
• “Yogācāra Critiques of the Two Truths”. Chen-kuo Lin and Michael Radich (eds.) A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism (Hamburg University Press 2014), 313-335.
• 〈无：从《存有与时间》到《哲学文献》〉《现象学与人文科学》5 (2014): 263-277.

2013

• “‘I Have Lost Me’: Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream”. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 40.3-4 (2013): 511-526.
• 〈吕澂 柳诒徴《汤用彤〈汉魏两晋南北朝佛教史〉审查书》（整理稿）〉《汉语佛学评论》3 (2013): 5-10.
• 〈论《成唯识论》中的外在世界问题〉史密特豪逊 著 余振邦 姚治华 译.《唯识研究》第二卷. 北京: 中国社会科学出版社, 2013 (Chinese translation of Lambert Schmithausen. On the Problem of the External World in the Ch’eng wei shih lun. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2005).

2012

• “Sources for the Yogācāra Critiques of the Two Truths”. Dasho Karma Ura and Dendup Chophel (eds) Buddhism Without Borders (Bhutan, Thimphu: Centre for Bhutan Studies 2012), 243-256.
• 〈从柏林联邦档案馆藏太虚的一封信谈起〉《宗教的现代社会角色》马建钊 印顺 李大华 编 (北京：人民出版社2012), 119–132.

2011

• “Noncognition and the Third Pramāṇa”. Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic, Eli Franco, and Birgit Kellner (eds.) Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2011), 477–490.
• “‘Sautrāntika-Madhyamaka’ as Seen in the grub mtha’ Texts from Dunhuang”. Journal of Buddhist Studies 8 (2011): 81–90.

2010

• “‘Suddenly Deluded Thoughts Arise’: Karmic Appearance in Huayan Buddhism”. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 37.2 (2010): 198–214.
• “Typology of Nothing: Heidegger, Daoism and Buddhism”. Comparative Philosophy 1.1 (2010): 78–89.
• 〈姚治华教授专访：佛学与道学的融通及对非实体思想的一些看法〉《道场》2 (2010): 22–26.

2009

• “Empty Subject Terms in Buddhist Logic: Dignāga and His Chinese Commentators”. Journal of Indian Philosophy 37 (2009): 383–398.
• “A Diatessaronic Reading in the Chinese Nestorian Texts”. D. W. Winkler and Li Tang (eds.) Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (Wien and Berlin: LIT Verlag 2009), 153–165.
• “Tibetan Learning in the Contemporary Chinese Yogācāra School”. M. Kapstein (ed.) Buddhism between Tibet and China (Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications 2009), 181–202.
• “The Silence of the Buddha”. K. L. Dhammajoti (ed.) Buddhist and Pali Studies (Hong Kong: Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong 2009), 411–416.
• 〈佛教逻辑中的「空词项」问题〉《修远之路 : 香港中文大学哲学系六十周年系庆论文集 同寅卷》刘国英 张灿辉 编 (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press 2009), 359-375.

2008

• “Some Mahāsāṃghika Arguments for the Cognition of Nonexistent Objects”. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 25.3 (2008): 79–96.
• “On Memory and Personal Identity”. Journal of Buddhist Studies 6 (2008): 219-234.
• 〈「有性」与「是性」: 从汉译梵文典籍的经验看Sein一词的翻译〉《现象学与当代哲学》2 (2008): 113-130.
• 〈敦煌所出藏文宗义书所见之“经中观”〉《华学》9-10 (2008): 1484-1489.

2007

• “Four-Dimensional Time in Dzogchen and Heidegger”. Philosophy East and West 57.4 (2007): 512–532.
• 〈非认知与第三量〉《国立政治大学哲学学报》17 (2007): 89-114.
• “Dharmakīrti and Husserl on Negative Judgments”. Cheung Chan-fai and Yu Chung-chi (eds.) Phenomenology 2005, I: Selected Essays from Asia (Bucharest: Zeta Books 2007), 731–746.
• 〈庄子〈蝴蝶梦〉的深层分析〉《儒释道之哲学对话》刘笑敢 川田洋一 编 (Hong Kong: Commercial Press 2007), 289-302. [Japanese Translation:〈庄子〈蝴蝶の梦〉の深层分析〉(菅野博史译)《东洋学术研究》[Tōyō gakujutsu kenkyū] 46.2 (2007): 126-144.]
• 《佛教伦理学》萨达提沙著 姚治华 王晓红 译 上海: 上海译文出版社，2007 (Chinese translation of Hammalawa Saddhatissa. Buddhist Ethics. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1997).

2006

• “A Note on Dignāga and Asvabhāva.” Journal of Buddhist Studies 4 (2006): 251-258.
• 〈论陈那的自证说〉《现象学与人文科学》3 (2006): 51-83.
• 〈海德格尔与大圆满中的四维时间〉(夏志前译)《现代哲学》1 (2006): 78-89.
• 〈陈那与四种现量〉(余振邦译)《复旦哲学评论》3 (2006): 56-77.
• 〈虚无与空性–现象学和佛学的观点〉Review Essay on the Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre, by Stephen W. Laycock (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001).《现象学与人文科学》 3 (2006): 239-245.

2005

• The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

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• 《方便智慧》香港: 商务印书馆香港有限公司 2005.
• “Reflexive Awareness: A Theravāda-Andhaka Debate.” Journal of Buddhist Studies 3 (2005): 152-168.
• 〈再论海德格尔的Ereignis：以《哲学文献》为中心〉《德意志思想评论》2 (2005): 58-72.

2004

• “Dignāga and Four Types of Perception.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 32 (2004): 57-79.

2002

• 〈《太一生水》与太乙九宫占〉《古墓新知》庞朴 编 (台北: 台湾古籍出版社2002), 47-67.

2001

• 〈儒家的社群主义如何可能？〉Review Essay on the Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective, by Wm. Theodore deBary (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). 《儒家与自由主义》(北京: 三联书店 2001), 194-200.

1996

• 《异部宗轮论（释译）》台北: 佛光文化事业有限公司 1996.
• “In the Power of the Spirit.” Tripod 14.91 (1996): 28-38.

1995

• 〈补特伽罗和阿特曼的译名问题〉《谛观》82 (1995): 47-64.
• 〈爱德蒙徳 · 胡塞尔〉《现代世界十大思想家》易杰雄 编 (南京: 江苏人民出版社 1995), 405-532.

1994

• 〈庸与Ereignis〉《现象学与海德格》熊伟 编 (台北: 远流出版公司 1994), 319-347.
• 〈如如之真与生生之易：论智旭的三教合一思想〉《东南文化》2 (1994): 196-201;《人大报刊复印资料》10 (1994): 106-111.

1993

• 〈佛教哲学中的不可说问题〉《佛学研究》1 (1993): 102-110.

1991

• 〈尼采对轮回的领悟〉《法音》12 (1991): 40-45.
• 〈康德先验演绎中的我思与时间〉《北京大学研究生学报》3-4 (1991): 37-44;《人大报刊复印资料》3 (1992): 25-32.