Hong Changseong obtained a BA and MA from Seoul National University's philosophy department and received his PhD from Brown University. He has taught for twenty years at the Minnesota State University Moorhead where he specialized in metaphysical psychophilosophy and Buddhist philosophy. He has written many papers on the relationship between the mind and material world in both English and Korean, particularly concerning the yeongi concept in Buddhism and its implications for both Eastern and Western metaphysics. He translated Realization and History with his wife and professor Yu Seon-gyeong.