In 2003 he was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relation and in 2006 received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the faculty of Arts at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He has been teaching Philosophy in higher education for over seventeen years. His main fields of interest include logic, ethics and philosophy of religion, and he has published in Myanmar on a range of philosophical subjects including the response to euthanasia from the perspective of Buddhism and the concept of appearance and reality in Western and Eastern philosophical traditions. His current research focuses on freedom and determinism in the context of Buddhist Philosophy. Dr. Saw Lin is hosted by the CEU Department of Philosophy. E-mail: sawlynn13579@gmail.com