● Emeritus Professor, Department of East Asian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, USA
● Emeritus Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of the West (UWest)
● Member of the Board of Directors, Nan Tien Institute, Australia
● Founder and Former Director, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
● President of UWest, 2004–2006


A pioneer in the digitization of Buddhist texts, which has become an essential practice in contemporary Buddhist scholarship. Over his illustrious six-decade career, he has published over 75 research articles and reviews, and authored or edited numerous books on Buddhism, including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems, The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch’an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea. His significant contributions include the creation of a descriptive catalog and digitization of the Korean Buddhist Canon, for which he received the Jogye Order’s Grand Award in 2014.