Sarah Fink completed her B.A. in Religious Studies at Davidson College in 2018. Her undergraduate research focused on changing religious climates and the increasing presence of Tibetan Buddhism in Mainland China and the United States. This year-long thesis project Continue reading
Zhu Qianqian is a hard-working student, specializing in Chinese Philosophy. She gradually became interested in Buddhism. She would later present a professional paper on the topic of Tiantai school. Continue reading
Siqi Gan was born in Shanghai, China. He received his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Hohai University, China. He is now a postgraduate student of religion study in East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Continue reading
Liu Wen’s major is Chinese modern history. In the past undergraduate and postgraduate stages, she had completed the Chinese and foreign history course with good results, and gained a good historical foundation. Continue reading
Peng Xi’s research direction is religious philosophy. He enjoys exploring the philosophical thoughts behind the religious-related phenomena and religion classics. Xi has studied political philosophyContinue reading
Shaopeng Fan is a graduate student at East China Normal University. His major is the science of religion in the Department of Philosophy. He was a visiting graduate student at National Chengchi UniversityContinue reading
ZHAN Ya-Qing is a MA student in the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature department at National Taiwan University in Taiwan. Her research primarily focuses on Okinawa immigrants in the periphery of the Japanese Empire, the mobilization of Okinawans and their times.Continue reading
Yier Li is a Master of Buddhist History at Fujian Normal University. Her research focuses on the administrators of the Buddhist monasteries in China from the ninth to the twelfth century, in particular to their name, social recognition, identity, and internal structure of the group.Continue reading
Shuyue He is a graduate student at Columbia University. At the current stage, she is investigating various dimensions (in particular, the political dimension) of Neo-Confucianism and the intersection of Neo-Confucianism with Chinese Buddhism and Daoism.Continue reading
Maggie completed her BA in Religious Studies at Mount Allison University in 2016. Her undergraduate research examined a contemporary account of rebuilding of a Chinese Buddhist temple on Wutaishan, looking at the role of both lineage and academia in this practice. Continue reading
Russell Guilbault is interested in Buddhist and Chinese philosophical contributions to contemporary philosophy, particularly ethics, metaethics, and metaphysics.Continue reading