Yang Weizhong, born in August 1966, is a native of Qianyang in Shanxi province. He has studied in the Faculty of Liberal Arts Northwest University from 1984 to 1988 and from 1991 to 1994, and has acquired the Master of Arts Degree. Then from 1995 to 1998, professor Yang has studied and acquired the Doctor of Chinese Philosophy Degree in the Department of Philosophy in Nanjing University. From then on, Professor Yang has been stayed on the faculty and has been promoted to the professional title of Professor since November 2005. He is currently the professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Nanjing University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. Moreover, professor Yang is the director of the Institute of Shuixi Buddhist Culture in Nanjing University and the executive deputy director of the Institute of School of the Three Treatises at the Qixia Mountain Branch of the Buddhist Academy of China. Professor Yang is also the director of the Institute of Buddhist Culture in Baosheng Temple in Anhui province and the vice president of Cien Institute of the Buddhist Academy of Jiangsu.