Wendi Adamek is an Associate Professor and the Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies in the Department of Classics and Religion.Continue reading
Christoph Anderl is a Professor in the Centre for Buddhist Studies. His main research interest is the study of Medieval Chinese, as reflected in Buddhist texts (Buddhist Hybrid Chinese), including syntax, semantics, and rhetorical devices. Continue reading
Susan Andrews is an Assistant Professor of Eastern Religions . Her areas of Teaching and Research include: Religions of China, Japan and Korea, Ritual Practice, Pilgrimage, and Material Culture .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
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
James Benn is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. His field of research is religion in medieval China (roughly fourth to tenth century, CE). Continue reading
Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 teaches in the Department of Religion. He was born in Germany. He obtained an MA (Sinology) and Dr.phil (History of Religions) from Würzburg University and an MA (Communication Studies) from Nagoya University. Continue reading
Timothy Brook is a Professor in the Department of History. He works on the social and cultural history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the Japanese occupation of China during World War Two, and historical perspectives on world history and human rights.Continue reading
Jinhua Chen is 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 additionally held short-term teaching positions at other universities including the University of Virginia (2000-2001), the University of Tokyo (2003-04), and Stanford University (2012).Continue reading
CHEN Ming is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of South Asian Studies at Peking University. Since he was awarded a doctoral degree by Peking University in 1999, with a dissertation on Indian Medical Science, he has focused on the history of cultural communication between China and Central & South Asia in the Medieval Period, mainly but not exclusively in terms of medicine. Continue reading
Limei Chi is an Associate Professor at the Center of Buddhism Studies of Tsurumi University in Japan. Her scholarship, to date mostly on texts connected with the Tiantai tradition in medieval China, but also on the history of certain important individuals in the tradition shows considerable her considerable skills in historical research.Continue reading
Paul Copp is an Associate Professor in Chinese Religion and Thought, East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research focuses on the history of religious practice in China during the eighth through the twelfth centuries. In particular, he studies material sources (manuscripts, amulets, seals, archaeological sites, etc) for the practices of Chinese Buddhism in this period.Continue reading