Lori Meeks is associate professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures. Her current research is centered on the social and cultural history of Buddhism in Japanese history.Continue reading
Ven. Miao jiang is a renowned Buddhist practitioner in China. He is currently a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China and President of the Shanxi Provincial Buddhist Association. 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
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
Dr. Muller is a Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Muller’s main field of research is Buddhism, but he is also a student of the broader area of East Asian philosophy and religion (i.e., Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism). Continue reading
Fuyubi Nakamura (M.Sc., D.Phil. Oxford, 2006) is a socio-cultural anthropologist and curator, and joined the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in April 2014. She specializes in the anthropology of art, museum studies and material and visual cultures with special interest in Japan and its diasporas, India, Tibet and contemporary art. Continue reading
Dr. NGUYEN, Thi Hien is an Associate Professor at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi. She is interested in doing research on religious practices, cultural heritage and transnationalism.Continue reading
Toshinori Ochiai is a the President of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies. Continue reading
I’m Ouyang Zipei, I completed my MA at Southwest University with a dissertation about the Lao-zi philosophy. Now I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in East China Normal University, focusing on the history ofContinue 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
Park Bumkeun (Buddhist Monk of Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, Buddhist name: Huoshan 活山) is currently a Ph.D. student in Tsinghua University in Beijing, Department of Philosophy. He received his B.A. in Continue reading