Adjunct Professor
Religious Studies

Education

• Ph.D., Religious Studies (Religious Studies; Buddhist Studies), University of the West.
• M.A., Religious Studies (Religious Studies; Buddhist Studies), University of the West.
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University.

Research Interests

Buddhist Studies; Mahayana Buddhist Studies; Early Buddhist Studies; Zen Buddhism; Buddhist Mindfulness Practice; Asian Religions.

Publications/Writings

• *Huynh, Trung. “Advocacy for Teaching Mindfulness Practices and World Religions in Public Schools.” The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching, vol. 2, no. 1, 2021, pp. 175-84.
• *Huynh, Trung. “Advocacy for Teaching about Buddhism as an Elective Course in Social Studies.” The Social Studies Texan, vol. 36, no. 3, Fall/Winter 2020, pp. 47-50.
• *Huynh, Trung. The Early Development of Buddhism in the Red River Delta Basin-Jiaozhi: The Case of a Sogdian-Jiaozhi Buddhist Monk Kang Senghui 康僧會 in Southern China. Saarbrücken, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2018.
• *Huynh, Trung. A reappraisal of Kumarajiva role in medieval Chinese Buddhism. Saarbrücken, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016.
• *Huynh, Trung. “Why did Ambedkar Choose Buddhism to liberate his depressed classes? Was his failure in politics leading him to Buddhism?” Living in Peace: Insights from Buddhism. Honolulu: Hawaii, 2013, pp. 265-283.

Classes taught at UH

• Introduction to Buddhism - RELS 2360
• Introduction to Asian Religions - RELS 3380
• Buddhist Meditation - RELS 3396
• Buddhist Mindfulness Practice - RELS 3396

Conference

*Co-chair, Buddhist Pedagogy Seminar of the American Academy of Religion, term 2019-2024.

*Paper Presentation, “Advocacy for teaching Buddhism in Public School,” Buddhist Pedagogy section of the American Academy of Religion, November 2019 annual meeting.

*Paper Presentation, “Some Buddhist approaches to ecological issues,” Asian Religions section of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion, March 2019 annual meeting.

*Paper Presentation, “The Exceptional Causes of Buddhist Self-Immolation,” Asian Religions section and Religion, Conflict, and Peace section of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion, March 2019 annual meeting.

*Panel Presentation, “Eastern Practice of Mindfulness Goes Mainstream,” 34th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Indiana University Southeast, November 20-22th, 2016.