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
Bernard Faure is the Kao Professor of Japanese Religion in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He specializes in the Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Traditions, and is the author of several books in both English and French.Continue reading
Dr. ZHANG Dewei is an associate researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.
SHEN, Lien Fan is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah.Continue reading
Dr. Arrault is currently directeur d’études of Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), and professor attached to the Research Center on Modern and contemporary China (School for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences).Continue reading
Jen Jou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Buddhist Studies and Director of the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (DILA), Taiwan.Continue reading
Professor Karil Kucera’s research centers on sacred sites, with her most recently completed work focused on the cliff sculptures at the Buddhist cave site of Baodingshan in Sichuan province, Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism: Visualizing Enlightenment at Baodingshan from the 12th to the 21st Century. Continue reading
Dr. Chung-hui Tsui is an art historian and calligrapher, who currently teaching at the Centre of Buddhist Studies in the University of Hong Kong. Continue reading
The scholarship of Dr. Andra le Roux-Kemp centers on the social embeddedness of law and explores the theoretical and practical dynamics of legal change in domestic and global contexts.Continue reading
Dr. Rey-Sheng Her is an Associate Professor of the Institute of Religion and Culture at College of Humanity and Social Science, Tzu Chi University; and the Spokesman and Director of Humanity Development of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, which runs the largest, faith-based NGO in the Chinese world.Continue reading
Shubin Zhang is a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Buddhist Art in China at Zhejiang University, with a dissertation titled “Dharma and Orthodoxy: The Formation of a Buddhist Sanctuary in Mt. Wutai and Its Visual Imagery in the East Asian Faith System” (《正法與正統——五臺山佛教聖地的建構及在東亞的視覺呈現》), under the supervision of Prof. Zaixin Hong.Continue reading
Bai Zhaojie is an Assistant Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. His research fields include Daoism, Buddhism, and their interactions in medieval China.Continue reading