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. Buddhist Philosophy
2. Indian Philosophy
3. Philosophy of Religion
4. Phenomenology
5. Philosophy of Mind

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.
• 〈唯識學派的外境批判〉，《華文哲學百科》（2025 版本），王一奇（編）。URL=http://mephilosophy.ccu.edu.tw/entry.php?entry_name=唯識學派的外境批判。

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.

• 〈「依託施設」與「假名」〉. 《中國哲學與文化》 第21卷 1-28頁. 上海: 上海古籍出版社

2023

• 〈「本來無一物」：《壇經》中的空性思想〉，鄭吉雄 編《古典今情：跨越時空的經典閱讀與賞析》，339—364頁，香港中文大學出版社 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.
• 〈何以知道我們有意識? ——人工智能、意識哲學與佛學〉《北京大學人文社會科學研究院通訊》第30期（2023年），97-99頁

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).
• 〈空與假：以《中論頌》第24品第18頌為中心〉《哲學分析》12.3 (2021): 4-26.
• 〈論意識及其所緣〉(李志璋 譯)《唯識研究》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

• 《自證: 意識的反身性》(許偉 余振邦 譯) 上海：東方出版中心 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.
• 〈太虛與國家社會主義〉《無礙法界 正教弘傳: 人間佛教在東亞與東南亞的傳佈》陳劍鍠 編 (香港中文大學人間佛教研究中心 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.
• 〈無與空、無為與涅槃：道家與佛教哲學的比較研究〉《融合之跡：佛教與中國傳統》賈晉華 編 (上海人民出版社 2017), 3-18.
• 《梵與道 : 印中哲學和宗教比較研究》伊薩瑪‧泰奧多 姚治華 編; 葉首德 譯 北京: 宗教文化出版社 2017.
• 〈一、水與宇宙生成論〉《梵與道: 印中哲學和宗教比較研究》伊薩瑪‧泰奧多 姚治華 編 (北京: 宗教文化出版社 2017), 3-22.

2016

• 〈中觀哲學與佛教的生死觀〉《中外醫學哲學》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.
• 〈無：從《存有與時間》到《哲學文獻》〉《現象學與人文科學》5 (2014): 263-277.

2013

• “‘I Have Lost Me’: Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream”. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 40.3-4 (2013): 511-526.
• 〈呂澂 柳詒徴《湯用彤〈漢魏兩晉南北朝佛教史〉審查書》（整理稿）〉《漢語佛學評論》3 (2013): 5-10.
• 〈論《成唯識論》中的外在世界問題〉史密特豪遜 著 余振邦 姚治華 譯.《唯識研究》第二卷. 北京: 中國社會科學出版社, 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.
• 〈從柏林聯邦檔案館藏太虛的一封信談起〉《宗教的現代社會角色》馬建釗 印順 李大華 編 (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.
• 〈姚治華教授專訪：佛學與道學的融通及對非實體思想的一些看法〉《道場》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.
• 〈佛教邏輯中的「空詞項」問題〉《修遠之路 : 香港中文大學哲學系六十周年系慶論文集 同寅卷》劉國英 張燦輝 編 (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」與「是性」: 從漢譯梵文典籍的經驗看Sein一詞的翻譯〉《現象學與當代哲學》2 (2008): 113-130.
• 〈敦煌所出藏文宗義書所見之“經中觀”〉《華學》9-10 (2008): 1484-1489.

2007

• “Four-Dimensional Time in Dzogchen and Heidegger”. Philosophy East and West 57.4 (2007): 512–532.
• 〈非認知與第三量〉《國立政治大學哲學學報》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.
• 〈莊子〈蝴蝶夢〉的深層分析〉《儒釋道之哲學對話》劉笑敢 川田洋一 編 (Hong Kong: Commercial Press 2007), 289-302. [Japanese Translation:〈莊子〈蝴蝶の夢〉の深層分析〉(菅野博史譯)《東洋學術研究》[Tōyō gakujutsu kenkyū] 46.2 (2007): 126-144.]
• 《佛教倫理學》薩達提沙著 姚治華 王曉紅 譯 上海: 上海譯文出版社，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.
• 〈論陳那的自證說〉《現象學與人文科學》3 (2006): 51-83.
• 〈海德格爾與大圓滿中的四維時間〉(夏志前譯)《現代哲學》1 (2006): 78-89.
• 〈陳那與四種現量〉(余振邦譯)《復旦哲學評論》3 (2006): 56-77.
• 〈虛無與空性–現象學和佛學的觀點〉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).《現象學與人文科學》 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: 商務印書館香港有限公司 2005.
• “Reflexive Awareness: A Theravāda-Andhaka Debate.” Journal of Buddhist Studies 3 (2005): 152-168.
• 〈再論海德格爾的Ereignis：以《哲學文獻》為中心〉《德意志思想評論》2 (2005): 58-72.

2004

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

2002

• 〈《太一生水》與太乙九宮占〉《古墓新知》龐樸 編 (臺北: 臺灣古籍出版社2002), 47-67.

2001

• 〈儒家的社群主義如何可能？〉Review Essay on the Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective, by Wm. Theodore deBary (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). 《儒家與自由主義》(北京: 三聯書店 2001), 194-200.

1996

• 《異部宗輪論（釋譯）》臺北: 佛光文化事業有限公司 1996.
• “In the Power of the Spirit.” Tripod 14.91 (1996): 28-38.

1995

• 〈補特伽羅和阿特曼的譯名問題〉《諦觀》82 (1995): 47-64.
• 〈愛德蒙徳 · 胡塞爾〉《現代世界十大思想家》易傑雄 編 (南京: 江蘇人民出版社 1995), 405-532.

1994

• 〈庸與Ereignis〉《現象學與海德格》熊偉 編 (臺北: 遠流出版公司 1994), 319-347.
• 〈如如之真與生生之易：論智旭的三教合一思想〉《東南文化》2 (1994): 196-201;《人大報刊複印資料》10 (1994): 106-111.

1993

• 〈佛教哲學中的不可說問題〉《佛學研究》1 (1993): 102-110.

1991

• 〈尼采對輪廻的領悟〉《法音》12 (1991): 40-45.
• 〈康德先驗演繹中的我思與時間〉《北京大學研究生學報》3-4 (1991): 37-44;《人大報刊複印資料》3 (1992): 25-32.