She has two B.A. degrees from National Taiwan University, one in Foreign Languages and Literatures and one in Philosophy, and an M.A. and Ph.D. with distinction from Temple University. She is the author of This-Worldly Nibbāna: A Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethic for Peacemaking in the Global Community and chapters in many books, including Oxford Handbook to Contemporary Buddhism, Teaching Buddhism, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook to Chinese Philosophy and Gender, The World Book of Faith, Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions, Violence Against Women in Contemporary World Religion: Roots and Cures, and Considering Evil and Human Wickedness.HyeYeon Sunim