Cross-Regional and Cross-Cultural Interaction – Panelists

Publications include the monographs Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017) and Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku (Center of Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006) as well as peer-reviewed articles in journals including Monumenta Nipponica, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Theatre Journal, Journal of the American Oriental Society, and Japanese Language and Literature.

Professor Atkins was awarded the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize by Cornell University in 2021 and the William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize by the University of Chicago in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford University, studied at the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright dissertation fellow, and has held visiting faculty or research appointments at Kyoto Prefectural University, Nanzan University, Hōsei University, and Keiō University.

Guo Jingna (born in September 1980), from Jining City, Inner Mongolia, is an associate researcher, doctoral researcher, master’s supervisor, and currently works at Yungang Research Institute as the director of the Research Office of the Center for History and Ethnic Integration. Graduated from the Department of Archaeology, School of History and Culture, Lanzhou University in 2015 with a master’s degree, under the guidance of Mr. Du Doucheng. Graduated from the Department of Archaeology, School of History and Culture, Shanxi University in 2021 with a doctoral degree, under the guidance of Professor Li Jun. Published 16 papers, including 6 in core journals, and led 9 provincial and ministerial level projects. Write “The Mysterious Life of the Dharma Gate in Yungang”, “The Splendid Northern Wei Buddhist Kingdom – Yungang Grottoes”, “Archaeological Report on the Top of Yungang Grottoes”, “Archaeological Report on the Front of Yungang Grottoes”, and “Archaeological Report on the Luban Kiln Grottoes”. The paper “Research on the Northern Wei Dynasty Relics and Stone Culture of Yungang Grottoes – Taking the Third Grottoes as an Example” won the third prize of Excellent Social Science Achievements in Shanxi Province in 2023. In 2023, awarded the title of academic leader in Datong City, Shanxi Province.

Hao Chunwen 郝春文 is a Yanshan 燕山 Distinguished Professor of the School of History at Capital Normal University, also serving as the head of the university’s Institute of Historical Studies. His main areas of research are Dunhuang documents, Buddhism in China, and Chinese history, especially from the third to thirteenth century. In the past few decades, he has published several monographs on various related topics, which include Zhonggu shiqi sheyi yanjiu 中古時期社邑研究 [The Study of Confraternities in Medieval China], Tang houqi Wudai Song chu Dunhuang sengni de shehui shenghuo 唐後期五代宋初敦煌僧尼的社會生活 [The Social Life of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Dunhuang during the Late Tang, Five Dynasties, and the Early Song], Shishi xiejing: Dunhuang yishu 石室寫經——敦煌遺書 [Scriptural Manuscripts in Stone Chambers: Dunhuang Documents], Dunhuang de lishi he wenhua 敦煌的歷史和文化 [The History and Culture of Dunhuang] (co-author), and Dunhuang sheyi wenshu jijiao 敦煌社邑文書輯校 [A Critical Collection of Documents concerning Confraternities from Dunhuang] (co-author). In addition, he was the chief editor of Vols. 12–14 in a multi-volume collection of Dunhuang manuscripts which are preserved in the United Kingdom and have published a host of articles. His current primary work-in-progress is an investigation of Dunhuang documents kept in the U.K., with the goal of collecting and studying the data related to social history. This is one of the major research projects sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China. The outcome of this project will be a thirty-volume series Ying cang Dunhuang shehui lishi wenxian shilu 英藏敦煌社會歷史文獻釋錄 [Annotated Transcription of the Dunhuang Literature concerning Social History Preserved in the U.K.], of which fifteen volumes have already been published. He has served in a wide range of institutions. These posts include President of the Institute of Dunhuang and Turfan Studies of China, Chief Editor of Dunhuang xue guoji lianluo weiyuanhui tongxun 敦煌學國際聯絡委員會通訊 [Newsletter of International Liaison Committee for Dunhuang Studies], chief editor of Dunhuang Tulufan yanjiu 敦煌吐鲁番研究 [Studies on Dunhuang and Turfan], and editorial member of Zhongguo shi yanjiu 中國史研究 [Journal of Chinese Historical Studies].

出版《明代南京寺院研究》《明代北京佛教寺院修建研究》《清史十五講》《明朝佛教史論稿》《明清宮廷宗教與政治活動研究》《明代文化研究》（二人合著）《明朝宗教》（合著）《這就是故宮》（主編）《明代國家治理文獻叢刊》（主編）等，點校出版《金陵梵剎志》《黃梅老祖山志》《靈谷禪林志》《嘉慶新安縣誌》《典籍•金陵大報恩寺》（三種）等。

He Xiaorong is a professor of School of History, Nankai University in Tianjin,China. He is the director of the Center for the Study of the Imperial Palace and the Ming and Qing Court of Nankai University, and vice president of the Ming History Society of China. His research focuses on history of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chinese Buddhism, and the Imperial Palace.

He has published numerous books, including Mingdai Nanjing siyuan yanjiu明代南京寺院研究 ( Research on Temples in Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty)；Mingdai Beijing fojiao siyuan xiujian yanjiu 明代北京佛教寺院修建研究 (Research on the Construction of Buddhist Temples in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty), Qingshi shiwu jiang清史十五讲 (Fifteen Lectures on the History of Qing Dynasty 1644-1840), Mingchao fojiao shi lungao 明朝佛教史论稿(A Preliminary Study on the Buddhist History in Ming Dynasty), Ming Qing gongting zongjiao yu zhengzhi huodong yanjiu明清宫廷宗教与政治活动研究 (Religious and Political Activities in the Imperial Court of Ming and Qing dynasties), etc.

Hong Xiuping，A specially appointed professor of “Changjiang Scholars” by the Ministry of Education, a specially appointed lecture professor of “Nanyong Scholars” at Nanjing University, the director of the Center for Oriental Philosophy and Religious Culture Research at Nanjing University, and a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

侯浩然，浙江大學歷史學院“新百人計划”研究員。博士畢業於德國萊比錫大學印度與中亞研究所。曾在德國波鴻大學宗教研究中心擔任助理研究員、在清華大學人文學院從事“水木學者”博士後研究工作。學術興趣為西藏的歷史文獻、藏文高僧傳記、黑水城出土的漢藏西夏多語種佛教文獻研究。

紀贇，文學博士，新加坡佛學院（Buddhist College of Singapore）副教授，兼任教務主任、圖書館館長。除教學外，主要從事佛教文獻、佛教史等相關研究。曾出版專著《慧皎高僧傳研究》（2009，上海古籍），另有論文多篇。

Dr.JIANG Jing is the Dean of the School of Oriental Languages and Philosophy, Zhejiang Gongshang University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Classical Literature from Zhejiang University in 2009 and she is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges. She has served as Vice President of the National Society of Sino-Japanese History, President of the Provincial Society for the History of Sino-Japanese Relations in Zhejiang. In addition, she has extensive visiting experience in the Waseda University, Chiba University in Japan, and she served as a  visiting research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Marine Civilization and Religious Culture at the Dongguk University in South Korea as well. In her research and teaching, Dr.Jiang focuses on the History of Sino-Japanese Buddhist exchanges, Japanese culture, etc. She has led the completion of one research project each for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, and three social science projects of Zhejiang Province. Dr.Jiang is currently leading several national and provincial research projects, such as “Buddhist Diplomacy between Ancient China and Japan”, “Buddhism and the Construction of Ancient East Asian Cultural Circle”, and “A Guide to Overseas Relics of Zhejiang Songyun(宋韻) Culture”. Dr.Jiang is the author of six books, including A Study on Wuxue Zuyuan Monk of the Song Dynasty in Japan and Selected Collection of Ink Writings of Zen Monks of the Song and Yuan Dynasties Collected in Japan, etc. She has published more than 50 papers in different journals, such as Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), Journal of Zhejiang Social Sciences, literature and Japanese Language Learning and Research.

現為獨立學者，撰有關於禪與詩學方面的博士論文（澳大利亞國立大學，1990 年）。曾在格里菲斯大學講授日本研究20年。他發表過關於東亞佛教、韓國新宗教等領域的著作。主要成果包括：《製造六祖惠能：早期禪宗祖師傳與僧傳》（Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch’an, 2005）。《先見之黑：〈鄭鑑錄〉與朝鮮前現代的起義之讖》（The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏng Kam Nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-modern Korea, 2018）。譯著有《韓國佛教大成》（Collected Works of Korean Buddhism, 2012）譯叢中的三卷（卷三《休靜選集》［Hyujeong: Selected Works］；卷七之二，《公案集II》［Gongan Collections II］；卷八《禪語錄》［Seon dialogies］），《朝鮮禪修指南：襌家龜鑑》（A Handbook of Korean Zen Practice: A Mirror on the Sŏn School of Buddhism [Sŏn’ga kwigam], 2015），以及《鏡虛集：朝鮮禪宗復興者的詩文》（The Gyeongheo Collection: Prose and Poetry by the Restorer of Korean Seon，2016）。近來研究領域則涉及禪宗與朱熹，明末唯識學，民國初年佛教之發達，語言與禪宗之流布，以及朝鮮/韓國所用之各種漢語言，並參與了英譯本《大乘起信論》（Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019）的編譯。

先後攻讀吉林大學、北京大學考古學學士與碩士課程，以及名古屋大學美術史學博士課程。曾就職於故宮博物院，2002年任清華大學副教授，2007年轉任教授。主要從事佛教物質文化研究，關於中國佛教造像思想之探索獲得長足進展。

Born in Pingquan, Hebei Province in 1963, Doctor of Literature, professor of Tsinghua University.

He studied the bachelor’s and master’s programs in archaeology at Jilin University and Peking University, and the doctoral program in Art history at Nagoya University. He worked at the Palace Museum and became an associate professor at Tsinghua University in 2002 and a professor in 2007. He is mainly engaged in the research of Buddhist material culture, and has made great progress in the exploration of Chinese Buddhist image-making thoughts.

Li Ling, a native of Dalian, Liaoning province, professor at Sichuan University, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), had been a Co-professor at National Institute for Advanced Studies, Israel, Visiting Scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India two times. Numerous visits to ancient Buddhist ruins in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. Her main research interest is visual Buddhism, and recent research interest is the image and archaeology of early Buddhism in India. She has published 18 works (including co-authored and translated), published 119 papers, and completed 2 projects funded by the National Publishing Fund.

Xuan Li is a Professor in the School of History and Culture at Sichuan University. He received his first PhD degree in history from the Renmin University in China, and second PhD degree in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. He has worked on ethnic history in China, nation and nationalism.

硏究特點：注重以歷史學分析史料的方法來研討宗教典籍的形成與思想脈絡。1996—2016年的主要研究領域是道教歷史與文獻。在道教歷史方面，對早期道教的“五斗米道—天師道”一線單傳的歷史模式提出質疑。在道教文獻方面，對《太平經》《老子想爾注》《老子化胡經》《老子變化經》《升玄內教經》《太上妙法本相經》等道書和六朝的“古靈寶經”有專門的研究。2017年以來，轉向中古佛教研究，目前對西域佛教史、中印佛教陸路交通路線、佛教初傳中國時期的歷史與藝術、印度佛教的“法滅”預言與東亞佛教的“末法思想”問題比較關注。

Liu Yi, obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of History at Capital Normal University in 2000, where he subsequently took up a teaching position. Currently, he is a professor, and dean at the School of History of Capital Normal University, as well as the vice president of the China Dunhuang and Turfan Society. His areas of expertise are Dunhuang studies and the religious history of medieval China. He has published over 160 academic papers, research book reviews, and translations in various domestic and international journals and anthologies. He has authored and edited eight monographs and collections of essays: “Reverence for Heaven and the Exaltation of the Dao: The Intellectual History Background of the Formation of Medieval Confucian and Daoist Thoughts” (2005), “Classics and History: A Collection of Studies on Daoist Scriptures from Dunhuang” (2011), “Divinity and Regionality: Studies on the Daoist Belief World between the Han and Tang Dynasties” (2011), “Daoist Scriptures of Dunhuang and Medieval Daoism” (2013), “Historical and Documentary Studies of Han and Tang Daoism: Selected Works of Liu Yi” (2015), “Introduction to the Study of Chinese Daoism History” (2017), “Historical Studies on the Lingbao Scriptures of the Six Dynasties” (2018), and “Longsha Lun Dao Ji” (2020).

His research is characterized by the use of historical analysis to study the formation and ideological contexts of religious scriptures. From 1996 to 2016, his primary research focus was on Daoist history and scriptures. In terms of Daoist history, he has critically examined the historical model of the “Five Pecks of Rice Dao to Celestial Master Dao” lineage. Regarding Daoist scriptures, he has conducted specialized research on texts such as the “Taiping Jing,” “Laozi Xiang Er Zhu,” “Laozi Hua Hu Jing,” “Laozi Bian Hua Jing,” “Sheng Xuan Nei Jiao Jing,” “Tai Shang Miao Fa Ben Xiang Jing,” and the “Lingbao Scriptures” of the Six Dynasties. Since 2017, he has shifted his focus to the study of medieval Buddhism, with particular interest in the history of Buddhism in the Western Regions, overland Buddhist trade routes between China and India, the history and art of Buddhism’s initial transmission to China, and comparative studies on Indian Buddhist “Dharma decline” prophecies and East Asian Buddhist “end of the Dharma” concepts.

刘益民，现为四川大学历史文化学院助理研究员。曾到牛津大学、清华大学、法鼓文理学院、河南大学等高校交流学习。在《宗教学研究》《史林》等刊物发表论文数篇。主要关注中古时期的佛教社会史、丧葬礼仪。

Rufei Luo serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of History, Zhejiang University, from 2022 to 2024. She completed her Ph.D. in Art Theory from the School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University, in 2022. Moreover, she participated in a visiting student program in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago from 2019 to 2020. Her research interests include the art history of Han-Xizang Buddhism and the art history of the Silk Road. She is currently leading a Youth Project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China titled “Research on the Remains in Grotto Temples of Western Xizang from the 10th to 13th Centuries in the Multi-ethnic Perspective of the Silk Road” (23CZS024). She has published academic papers in journals such as Dunhuang Research, The Study of Art History, and The World Religious Cultures. Additionally, she co-edited the compilation Collections of Tibetan Fine Arts: Sculpture Art-Jiangnan Volume in 2019.

Nie Jing is a postdoctoral fellow of Archaeology at Wuhan University, where he recently received his Ph.D. in Chinese History. His doctoral dissertation, “Buddhism under the Kitan Liao: A Regional Perspective” conducts a long-term, cross-regional examination of Buddhism in Liao Dynasty from the standpoint of cultural interaction. It aims to illustrate historical scenes of interaction between the Han and Kitan ethnic groups, as well as the cultural collision and integration between agrarian and pastoral society as Buddhism dispersed. His recent research focuses on the history of Liao and Jin Dynasties and social history of religion in medieval China.

NIU Weixing, currently is a professor and executive director in the Department of the History of Science and Scientific Archaeology of University of Science and Technology of China, mainly engaged in research on the history of astronomy, especially on the exchange and comparison of Chinese and Western astronomy. He is the Chief Expert of the Major Projects of the National Social Science Foundation titled ‘On the Diffusion of Astronomy along the Silk Road during the Han and Tang Dynasties’. He is also the author of Gazing toward the Indian Heavens: On the Origin and Diffusion of Astronomy in the Chinese Translated Sutras (《西望梵天――漢譯佛經中的天文學源流》), Extraterritorial Astronomy of the Tang Dynasty（《唐代域外天文學》）, and Compilation and Research on Astronomical and Calendrical Materials in the Buddhist Sutras and Taoist Scriptures（《佛道二藏天文曆法資料整理與研究》）, etc.

His current research, part of a larger interest in how ideas of authenticity and deception were negotiated in late imperial China, concerns practices of authentication surrounding material culture. He is preparing a study of one especially problematic category of artifact, so-called “Xuande incense burners,” bronze vessels supposedly cast in palace workshops in early fifteenth century but in fact invented over a hundred years later and “provenanced” by texts forged in the eighteenth century. He is also investigating Ming and Qing techniques for assaying (and faking) silver ingots, the most important form of money during that period.

Shi Qing is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of History at Zhejiang University. She received her Ph.D. from Wuhan University with a dissertation titled “A Research on the Inheritance and Integration of Buddhist Knowledge in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties: Centering on Chu Sanzang Ji Ji 出三藏记集.” Her dissertation primarily explores the organization and integration of Buddhist knowledge into the traditional Chinese knowledge system. It examines how scholars, influenced by traditional academic methods, absorbed Buddhist knowledge and how the interaction between foreign and local cultures influenced the evolution of Buddhism in China.

Research Interests include medieval history (Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tang Dynasty) and History of Buddhism (especially Buddhism and Medieval Monarchship as well as Buddhism and the Silk Road). Currently work on how Gandharan Buddhism influenced Medieval Chinese History.

孫英剛，先後就讀於北京大學（本科、碩士）和普林斯頓大學（Princeton University，碩士、博士），獲普林斯頓大學哲學博士學位（Ph.D.）。先後任教於復旦大學、浙江大學。現為浙江大學長聘教授、歷史學院常務副院長（主持全面工作）、浙江大學佛教文明研究中心主任。中國魏晉南北朝史學會副會長、中國唐史學會理事、敦煌吐魯番學會理事。客座職務包括耶魯大學東亞研究客座副教授和研究員（Visiting Associate Professor and Research Fellow in East Asian Studies，2015年9月—2016年3月）、東京大學東洋文化研究所訪問研究員（2012年10月—12月）等、日本中央大學客座教授（2017年12月）日本國際佛教學大學院大學2014年度客員研究員等。

方洛杭，根特大學佛教研究中心博士後、中古寫本資料庫編輯，年畢業於根特大學東方語言文化系，博士論文為「《祖堂集》研究：成書過程、譜系及互文性」。學術興趣專注於晚唐至北宋早期禪宗文獻及敦煌禪宗寫本研究，主要使用的研究方法包括語文學、版本研究及數字人文科學（例如版本、社會網絡分析）。發表「《泉州千佛新著諸祖師頌》（Or.8210/S.1635）：手稿、文本歷史及譜係研究」（《通報》2023年第109期）等三篇論文。

In reverse chronological order, Brian’s major writings include Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), a 2nd, enlarged edition of Zen At War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Zen War Stories (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest), published by San-ichi Shobo in 1971; Zen Master Dōgen, coauthored with Prof. Yokoi Yūhō of Aichi-gakuin University (Weatherhill, 1976); and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji (Weatherhill, 1972). In addition, Brian has published numerous journal articles, focusing on the historical relationship of not only Buddhism but religion in general to violence and warfare.

Many of Brian’s articles are available at the website of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus here: http://apjjf.org/site/search/level/2/author/Brian%20Victoria

Additional articles may be found on The Zen Site here: http://www.thezensite.com/MainPages/critical_zen.html

Among others, Brian has taught Japanese Studies at Bucknell University in the US; University of Auckland in New Zealand and the University of Adelaide in South Australia. From 2005 to 2013 Brian was a professor of Japanese Studies and director of the AEA “Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions Program” at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, OH. From 2013-2015 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. Brian currently lives in Kyoto, Japan where he continues his research as a non-resident Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a citizen of Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He is also a fully ordained Buddhist priest in the Sōtō Zen sect.

WANG Dawei 王大偉, male, was born in 1984, achieving doctor degree of Philosophy (in 2012, Sichuan University) and doctor degree of Medicine (in 2021, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) and now serve as a professor in the Institute of Taoism and Religious Culture in the Sichuan University, whose main research areas are the cultural history of Chinese Buddhism system and the connection between Buddhism and traditional medicine.

Jun Wang ,Professor ,works at Yunnan Provincial Museum.She made a study of research and curation of Yunnan ethnic minorities culture relics .Studies:《Art and Culture：The Research on the Silverware of Yunnan ethnic minorities》《The Non-paper Ancient Books and Records of Yunnan ethnic minorities》(Coauthor).

浙江省博物館檔案管理員，目前由利榮森紀念交流計劃資助在大英圖書館國際敦煌項目（IDP）做訪問研究。其研究主要關注吳越國（907–978）時期的佛教遺存（以閘口白塔和雷峰塔為中心），旨在探索吳越國時期杭州地區的佛教發展狀況及其與周邊地區或國家的交流。在大英圖書館訪學期間主要考察《大方廣佛華嚴經》，協助完善相關卷子的目錄信息，研究項目主要關注敦煌地區八十卷《大方廣佛華嚴經》的文本細節及版本信息，並在此基礎上與吳越國佛經進行比較研究。

張煜教授目前任職於上海外國語大學文學研究院。他曾於2010年與2015年在哈佛大學訪學。他的學術興趣主要在佛教文學與中國古典詩。他目前（2024年）訪學加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學，從事“本生、地獄與志怪文學“的研究。他的研究成果包括專著《心性與詩禪：北宋文人與佛教論稿》（華東師範大學出版社，2012）、譯著太史文《《十王經》與中國中世紀佛教冥界的形成》（上海古籍出版社，2016）以及論文五十餘篇。

趙青山，歷史學博士，蘭州大學敦煌學研究所教授，主要從事敦煌學和佛教史研究。近期研究課題為佛教疑偽經和佛教喪葬活動研究兩個方面。出版專著《6-10世紀敦煌地區抄經史》，發表論文《佛經抄寫制式的確立及其意義》《從敦煌寫經題記所記“七世父母”觀看佛教文化對中土文化的影響》等40余篇。

周利群，北京外國語大學亞洲學院梵語巴利語教研室副教授，研究方向為中印文化交流、佛教文獻學、天文學史等。代表作有專著《<虎耳譬喻經>文本與研究——中印間早期天文、曆法和文學的交流》，論文《變與不變：早期漢傳佛教文獻的天文學翻譯》等。主持2018年國家社科基金冷門「絕學」和國別史等研究專項基金項目「梵藏漢文佛經中的時間測量文獻整理與研究」，參與國家社科重大課題若干，結項教育部項目與校級項目若干。在國內外學術會議上報告二十多次，訪問印度、日本、英國知名學術機構五次。2017-2020，北京外國語大學卓越青年教師；2017-2018年，獲紐約李氏基金在英國劍橋李約瑟研究所訪學。2021年入選國際古代與中世天文史委員會（CHAMA）理事，中國印度文學研究會理事。