Director and Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Ampere A. Tseng is Director and Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Professor Tseng received his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1978. In recent years, he has become interested in conducting research in the area of Buddhist vegetarianism, as well as the profiles and practices of Mahayana Buddhists in various regions. Dr. Tseng has published two hundred journal papers, reaching a Google h-index score of 35 and an i10-index number of 100 as of January 2019. Professor Tseng has delivered more than 200 invited seminars or keynote speeches and edited more than ten monographs or books.