Dan Lusthaus

 ( American Buddhists ) 

Dan Lusthaus is an American writer on Buddhism. He is a graduate of Temple University's Department of Religion, and is a specialist in Yogācāra. The author of several articles and books on the topic, Lusthaus has taught at UCLA, Florida State University, the University of Missouri, and in the Autumn of 2020 he was an Associate in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.

Lusthaus also collaborated with Heng-ching Shih in the translation of Kuiji's (K'uei-chi) commentary on the Heart Sutra with the Numata translation project. Lusthaus is an editor for the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, in the area of Indian/East Asian Yogācāra/ Tathāgatagarbha. He contributed the contents of his catalogue of the major Yogācāra translations of Xuanzang to the DDB, as well as a number of other terms related to the Cheng Weishi Lun and Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra.

• translated from the Chinese of K'uei-chi (Taishō volume 33, number 1710) by Heng-ching Shih; in collaboration with Dan Lusthaus. (2025). 9781886439115, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. ISBN 9781886439115
• Dan Lusthaus (2025). 9780700711864, Routledge. ISBN 9780700711864

• Members database at Daoist Studies.org
• Web article listing alumni of various universities' Religion programs.