Jesse Drian is a PhD. candidate in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on issues of intellectual history, literature, and sacred space in medieval Japanese religions.Continue reading
Anne Baycroft is a current PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.Continue reading
Wang Yue is a first-year PhD student at the University of Alberta. His current research concerns the relationship between religious texts/manuscripts and visual representations, with a particular focus on non-canonical Daoist art in China and Japan during the 14th century. Continue reading
Teng is a second-year PhD student at the University of Macau.Continue reading
His research focuses on the history of Sui-Tang China’s Three Levels Movement (sanjie jiao), as well as broader issues of state-sangha relations in China.Continue reading
My major academic interests include the linguistic features (syntax, language contact, diachronic change) of Chinese Buddhist texts although general linguistic studies and paleography of historical Chinese manuscripts are also fields which I intend to work on.Continue reading
Hou Xiaoming is currently a Ph.D. student in École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, Department of Religions et systèmes de pensées. Continue reading
In 2015, Denis Paletskiy joined the CASS Doctoral Program to be trained as an historian of religions with a focus on Han Chinese Buddhism. He has held research and teaching appointments at research and educational institutions including Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, School of Foreign Languages of Shaanxi Normal University, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Continue reading
Johan ROLS is enrolled in the PhD program in Religious studies at EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris), and also following a co-supervising scheme at Renmin University, Bejing. Continue reading
Suzanne’s current PhD project at Ghent University focusses on phonetic loan characters in Dunhuang manuscripts, dealing with medieval writing practices and historical phonology. Continue reading
