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Amanda Goodman (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2013) is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of East Asian Studies. Her research focuses on the formative Tang-Song transition period of Chinese Buddhism, and specifically the Chinese esoteric or tantric Buddhist traditions of the eighth through tenth centuries.Continue reading

Vincent Goossaert is a historian, professor at EPHE. He was guest professor at Geneva University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works on the social history of modern Chinese religion, and has focused on Daoism, on religious specialists as professionals and social roles, on the politics of religion, and on the production of moral norms.Continue reading

Phyllis Granoff joined the Yale faculty on July 1, 2004.She has done research in all of the classical religions of India–Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and has published articles on Indian art and literature. Her interests include contemporary Indian literature and she has published translations of short stories from Bengali and Oriya. Continue reading

Eric Greene is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Berkeley in 1998, followed by his M.A. (Asian Studies) and Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) in 2012. Continue reading

Gu Long is a PhD student from East China Normal University.Continue reading

Venerable Guohuei is a representative from Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts.Continue reading

Prof. Hao Chunwen is the Dean of the School of Historyand the Director of the History Institute at Capital Normal University. 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

Ann Heirman is the Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, an international research centre that focuses on India and China. She teaches Classical and Buddhist Chinese. She has published extensively on Chinese Buddhist monasticism and the development of disciplinary rules.Continue reading

Natasha Heller studies Chinese Buddhism in the context of cultural and intellectual history. Her research includes both the pre-modern period (10th through 14th c.) and the contemporary era.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

Gary Ho is the founder and former CEO of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, Canada (also known “Tzu Chi Canada” for short).Continue reading