Ni Ping, a researcher on Buddhist philosophy and literature and a lecturer at Shanghai Fudan University, is a specialist in the Buddhist phenomenology of the Nothing-Consciousness school (Vijnaptimatra). He also conducts research into the rhetoric of poetry, calligraphy and painting. His publications include the books  Mise en oeuvre de la phénoménologie bouddhique de l’école Rien-que-Conscience (Vijnaptimatra) with Yuan Hongdao (2017), l’édit impérial de l’empereur Yongzheng/le Soûtra des dix actes vertueux (2023) which he translated with Julie Simon.