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Beier Wang

Beier Wang

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Indologie
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04109 Leipzig

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Abstract

Beier Wang received an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Hong Kong and a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. Her doctoral project, mainly based on early to middle doctrines of Yogācāra school, investigates the role of “conceptuality” in the process of perception and cognition. Her research emphasizes the significance of concepts in constructing understandings and addresses problems on the differentiating process in both individual and collective perception.

E-mail: beier.wang@outlook.com

Project: Yogācāra Exposition of “Conceptuality” in the Cognitive Process


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My dissertation examines the role of conceptuality in perception and cognition. Investigating the usages and connotations of prapañca (conceptual proliferation), vikalpa (conceptualization, discrimination), and other relevant terms from the early to middle Yogācāra treatises, this research aims to shed light on the unignorable significance of concepts and language in terms of shaping the perceptual world, and in the meantime, to address the philosophical problem of intersubjectivity on one hand, and subjectivity on the other from a Buddhist perspective.


Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jowita Kramer