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Mark BLUM 貝萬合 (University of California, Berkeley 美國加州大學柏克萊分校)
Mark L. Blum is professor of Buddhist Studies and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University, Otani University in Kyoto, and the Jodo Shu Research Institute in Tokyo. He teaches courses on Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese, and Bioethics in Asia.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, he spent 2 years as an undergraduate student in Tokyo, then completed a MA degree in Classical Japanese Literature at UCLA in 1975 and his PhD in Buddhist Studies at U.C. Berkeley in 1990 with a dissertation on historical consciousness in Kamakura-period Pure Land Buddhism in Japan. Twice a Fulbright scholar, he also received research scholarships from the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He lived in Japan pursuing research at Japanese universities (Kyoto University, Otani University, and Bukkyō University) for a total of 10 years, and has been a research fellow at the University of Tokyo, Otani University, and Harvard University.
Dr. Blum has written or edited eight books and 45 articles in both English and Japanese on topics ranging the development of Mahāyāna doctrine in East Asia, eco-Buddhism, how Buddhism was assimilated into Japanese society, historical consciousness in medieval and modern Japanese Buddhist discourse, what modernity means in the context of Japanese Buddhist thinking. He is currently involved in four major translation projects of medieval and premodern Buddhist writing from Chinese and Japanese: the Nirvana Sutra in 4 volumes (volume 1 won the Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation, volume 2 will be published by summer 2025), the Guanjing shu by Shandao, the Wago tōroku by Hōnen, and Edo-period commentarial material on the Tannishō. In addition, he is currently working to complete a manuscript entitled Think Buddha, Say Buddha: a history of buddha-mindfulness practice and belief in East Asia.
Benjamin BROSE 本博澤 (University of Michigan 密西根大學)
Benjamin Brose is Professor of Buddhist and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He works on the cultural history of religion in China, with a focus on Buddhism, and is the author of Patrons and Patriarchs: Regional Rulers and Chan Monks During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015), Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator (Shambhala Publications, 2021), and Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim (University of Hawai’i Press, 2023). He is also the editor of Buddhist Masters of Modern China: The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers (Shambhala Publications, 2025), and the co-editor of Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life (Brill Publishers, forthcoming).
本博澤是密西根大學佛教與中國研究教授，也是亞洲語言與文化系主任。他著有《護法與祖師：五代十國時期的地區統治者與禪僧》（Patrons and Patriarchs: Regional Rulers and Chan Monks During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms; 夏威夷大學出版社, 2015 年）、Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator《玄奘：中國傳奇的朝聖者和翻譯家》（Shambhala Publications，2021 年），以及Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim《體現玄奘：一位佛教朝聖者的身後旅程》（夏威夷大學出版社，2023）。他也是《現代中國佛教大師》的編輯 (Shambhala Publications, 2025), Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life (Brill Publishers, forthcoming) 的共同編輯。
Jinhua CHEN 陳金華 (The University of British Columbia 英屬哥倫比亞大學)
Jinhua Chen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a professor of East Asian intellectual history (particularly religions) at the University of British Columbia, where he also served as the Canada Research Chair in East Asian Buddhism (2001–2011). He has received numerous grants and awards from major funding agencies for his work on East Asian state-church relationships, monastic (hagio-)biographical literature, Buddhist sacred sites, relic veneration, Buddhism and technological innovation in medieval China, and Buddhist translations. Dr. Chen has published six monographs, edited and co-edited over thirty books, and authored nearly eighty book chapters and journal articles.
陳金華（英屬哥倫比亞大學），加拿大皇家學會院士、英屬哥倫比亞大學東亞思想史講座教授，曾任加拿大國立東亞佛教講座教授（CRC）多年。研究領域涉及東亞政教關係，中古時期僧傳（聖傳）文學，佛教聖地，舍利崇拜，佛教與技術革新，以及佛教翻譯等領域。研究成果包括：已出版六部專著，合編近三十餘本書籍，發表七十多篇論文。目前領導一項為期多年的旨在重新建構佛學與東亞宗教重要面向的國際性與跨學科的龐大項目，由加拿大政府資助並得到國際上諸多名校與基金會的支持。
Lucia DOLCE 鐸鷺霞 (SOAS, University of London 英國倫敦大學亞非學院)
Lucia Dolce is Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism at SOAS, University of London, where she also serves as Chair of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions.She holds a first degree from the University of Venice, Italy, and a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research combines archival research, philosophicalanalysis and fieldwork to explore hermeneutical and ritual practices of Buddhism. She has published extensively, in English and in Japanese, on different forms of East Asian Buddhism; on ritual iconography and the visual culture of Japanese religion; on Shinto-Buddhist combinatory cults. Her current research project draws on unpublished documents recently uncovered in Japanese temples to map out the Buddhist discourse on ritual body.
SHENG Kai 聖凱 (Tsinghua University 清華大學)
Ven. Dr. Sheng Kai is a Professor in the Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University, the Executive director of the Buddhist Association of China, and a Graduate Teacher of Buddhist Academy of Putuo Mount, Zhejiang Province. In 2008, he was the Associate professor of Philosophy Department of Nanjing University. He studied in the Buddhist Academy of China, Nanjing University, attained MPhil (Nanjing University) in 2002, PhD (Nanjing University) in 2005, and finished Postdoctoral study in Tsinghua University in 2007. He is the author of following books: (1.)The Buddhist Ritual of China, (2) Study on the Confessional Ritual of Chinese Buddhism, (3) The Buddhist Confessional Thought, (4) Study on the School of Mahayana-samuparigraha-sastra. He specializes in Buddhist Confession, Buddhist Pure Land Thought, Yogacara Buddism and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism.
聖凱，1972 年生。現為清華大學道德與宗教研究院副院長、哲學系副主任、教授、博士研究生導師、國家社科基金重大專案“漢傳佛教僧眾社會生活史”首席專家、中國佛教文化研究所副所長、《佛學研究》主編。研究領域為南北朝佛教學派、儒佛道三教關係、中國佛教社會吏、近現代佛教、佛教與西方哲學比較研究等。主要著作有《中國漢傳佛教禮儀》《中國佛教懺法研究》《攝論學派研究》《晉唐彌陀淨土的思想與信仰》《中國佛教信仰與生活史》《南北朝地論學派思想史》，與 A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life 等。《攝論學派研究》曾獲全國優秀博士學位論文獎、第五屆教育部人文社科三等獎。
Huiming ZHANG 張惠明 (China National Academy of Painting 中國國家畫院)
法國高等實踐學院（EPHE）歷史語言與文獻學博士、中國國家畫院研究員、廣州美術學院美術學研究中心兼職研究員、中國敦煌吐魯番學會理事、法國亞洲學會（Société Asiatique）會員。主要研究方向：西域佛教藝術史與圖像學、新疆敦煌佛教圖像資料、俄羅斯考察隊在中國新疆敦煌等地的考古探險及所獲藝術品文物及其收藏以及絲綢之路中外美術傳播與交流等。曾先後在俄國聖彼得堡艾爾米塔什博物館、俄羅斯科學院東方文獻研究所和法國敦煌寫本與圖像資料研究中心/法國東亞文明研究中心（UMR 8583/ UMR 8155/ CRCAO）、德國柏林亞洲藝術博物館、法國吉美國立亞洲藝術博物館、意大利羅馬東方藝術博物館及意大利亞非研究所（Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente [IsIAO]）等學術機構學習考察和研究，發表論著有：Iconographie de Mañjuśrī et du mont Wutai en Chine médiévale. Une étude d’après les matériaux picturaux de Dunhuang du VIIe au Xe siècle（中古中國文殊五台山圖像學—根據公元7至10世紀敦煌繪畫資料的研究）(法文版)、A Study of the Story of the Penance and Elimination of Sins in the Golden Light Sūtra Illustration from the Bezeklik Caves (Focusing on Ty-575 Fragments of the Hermitage Collection)、《公元六至八世紀於闐佛教護法神系中的夜叉圖像—以達瑪溝佛寺遺址畫跡為中心的討論》、《公元6世紀末至8世紀初於闐〈大品般若經〉圖像考—和田達瑪溝托普魯克墩2號佛寺兩塊“千眼坐佛”木板畫的重新比定與釋讀》、《從那竭到於闐的早期大乘佛教護法鬼神圖像資料—— 哈達與和田出土的兩件龍王塑像札記》、《螺髻梵王還是編髮梵志？——雲岡石窟第1窟南壁窟門西側龕螺髻坐像圖像考釋》、《印度新德里國家博物館收藏的斯坦因敦煌所獲〈護諸童子曼荼羅〉紙本殘畫及其佛教護法獸首鬼神圖像》、《炳靈寺石窟第 169 窟北壁 10 號壁畫的般若主題與文殊師利法王子圖像初釋》以及《於闐佛教護法鬼神圖像：四臂獸首夜叉—女神與黎婆坻的文本與繪畫資料考》等。
Ph.D. in HTD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Research at the China National Academy of Painting, Adjunct Researcher at the Research Center for Art Studies of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Council Member of the Chinese Society for Dunhuang and Turfan Studies, China, and Member of the Société Asiatique, French. Primary Research Areas include: The history and iconography of Buddhist art in medieval western China (Xinjiang and Dunhuang), Materials from the Russian expedition’s archaeological expeditions to Xinjiang and Dunhuang and art objects and their collections, the dissemination and exchange of Chinese and foreign art along the Silk Road, etc. Main Publications include: Iconographie de Mañjuśrī et du mont Wutai en Chine médiévale: Une étude d’après les matériaux picturaux de Dunhuang du VIIe au Xe siècle 中古中國文殊五台山圖像學—根據公元7至10世紀敦煌繪畫資料的研究 (Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2018).
