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Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li is a third-year MFA Candidate at the UBC School of Creative Writing.Continue reading

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

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

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

Taolin Liu is a MPhil student in the Department of Religious studies at the Chinese University of Hong KongContinue 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

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

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

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

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

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

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