Department: School of Creative Writing
Email: elikther@student.ubc.ca
Role(s): Participant-PhD Student
Biography:
Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li is a third-year MFA Candidate at the UBC School of Creative Writing.Continue reading
Buddhism & East Asian Religions
Li, Vivian
Department: School of Creative Writing
Email: elikther@student.ubc.ca
Role(s): Participant-PhD Student
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Li, Wei
Department: Department of Chinese Language and Literature
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Role(s): Participant-PhD Student
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Li Wei is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. His research focuses on Buddhism’s impact on the Chinese literary traditions. He obtained his Master Degree with a thesis on Continue reading
Li, Xinyuan
Department: School of Philosophy and Religious Study
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Role(s): Participant-PhD Student
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Xinyuan Li was a visiting student in the UBC Asian Studies for one year from October 2017 to November 2018 before returning to doctoral studies at Minzu University of China. She made measurable progress with her dissertation, with the help of substantial Chinese literature documents inContinue reading
Li, Yier
Department: College of Social Development
Email: lyeat11@gmail.com
Role(s): Participant-Masters Student
Biography:
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
Liu, Taolin
Department: Department of Religious studies
Email: taolinliu1998@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Role(s): Participant-Masters Student
Biography:
Taolin Liu is a MPhil student in the Department of Religious studies at the Chinese University of Hong KongContinue reading
Liu, Wen
Department: School of Humanities
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Role(s): Participant-Masters Student
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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
Liu, Yi
Department: School of History
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Role(s): Participant-Faculty, Co-investigator
Biography:
LIU Yi is professor and Dean of School of History at Capital Normal University and also the secretary of the Association of the Dunhuang and Turpan studies in China. His research interests include the Dunhuang studies and the medieval history of religion. For the past 20 years, he has been working onContinue reading
Lovdahl, Nate
Department: Religious Studies
Email: nate.lovdahl@yale.edu
Biography:
Nate Lovdahl is a PhD student at Yale University. He works on Buddhist monastic identity in the Tang and Song, looking especially at ordination processes and the role of the court in defining who or what is a monastic.Continue reading
Lowe, Bryan
Department: Department of Religion
Email: Bryan D. Lowe
Role(s): Cluster Leader, Co-investigator, Participant-Faculty
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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
Main, Jessica
Department: Department of Asian Studies and Institute of Asian Research
Email: jessica.main@ubc.ca
Role(s): Participant-Faculty, Co-investigator
Biography:
Jessica Main is an Assistant Professor, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute of Asian Research. Since Fall of 2009, she has served as The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chair in Buddhism and Contemporary Society and Director of the RHNHFF Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society at UBC.Continue reading
Mair, Victor
Department: East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Email: vmair@sas.upenn.edu
Role(s): Participant-Faculty
Biography:
Professor Mair has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. He specializes in Buddhist popular literature as well as the vernacular tradition of Chinese fiction and the performing arts. Continue reading
McBride, Richard
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages Department
Email: richard_mcbride@byu.edu
Role(s): Participant-Faculty, Co-investigator
Biography:
Richard D. McBride II is Associate Professor of Korean Studies and Buddhist Studies at Brigham Young University. He earned a PhD. in East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA (2001), specializing in Korean and Chinese Buddhism and early Korean history. Continue reading