Prof. Teng is currently teaching at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan. He completed his BA degree in Pali and Theravada Buddhism at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and an MA degree in Sanskrit Language at University of Poona, India. He then enrolled in the other MA program in the Religious Studies at University of Chicago, and lastly received his Ph.D. in the Religious Studies at Harvard University. Prof. Teng’s research interests include Buddhist Theory of Mind and Meditation, Intellectual History of Chinese Buddhism, and more recently the Problematic of Modernity in the Development of Contemporary Buddhism.