Bryan Lowe is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He specializes in Buddhism in ancient Japan (seventh through ninth centuries) and has broader research interests in ritual, manuscript studies, historiography, canons, and the religion of non-elites.Continue reading
Cynthea J. Bogel has been Professor of Japanese Art History and East Asian Buddhist Visual Cultures at Kyushu University since 2012. Most of her research and writing focusses on premodern Japanese Buddhist icons, especially statues, and specific aspects of their history.Continue reading
Dr. NGUYEN, Thi Hien is an Associate Professor at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi. She is interested in doing research on religious practices, cultural heritage and transnationalism.Continue reading
Toshinori Ochiai is a the President of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies. Continue reading
Jiang Wu is currently a professor in Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona (Tucson). His research interests include seventeenth-century Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan/Zen Buddhism, the role of Buddhist canons in the formation of East Asian Buddhist culture, and the historical exchanges between Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism. Continue reading
Barend ter Haar teaches Chinese studies at the University of Oxford, with a strong focus on cultural and religious history. Although first of all a social and cultural historian, the religious dimension is so central to Chinese traditional life that much of his research up to now has dealt with religious phenomena.Continue reading
Yinggang Sun is a professor at Zhejiang University and was previously associate professor in the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University. His research areas are: the social history of religions in medieval China, the history of Sui and Tang periods, and international Chinese studies.Continue reading
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 Continue reading Continue reading
James Robson is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies, East Asian Studies, and has served as Director of Graduate Studies for the Regional Studies East Asia M.A. program. Continue reading
Lori Meeks is associate professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures. Her current research is centered on the social and cultural history of Buddhism in Japanese history.Continue reading
George Keyworth is an Assistant Professor of East Asian religions. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Daoism, Shintō, and East Asian religious literature. Continue reading
Jinhua Jia, PhD from University of Colorado at Boulder, is Adjunct Professor at University of Macau, Research Professor at Wuhan University, and Chair Professor at Yangzhou University. Her research interests include Buddhist studies and traditional Chinese religion, philosophy, and literature.Continue reading
