Lu Zhang

University of Arizona

Ph.D.

Presenting the Buddha: The “Sages and Worthies as Incarnations” in Chan Historiographies in Song China

Jinchao ZHAO

University of Virginia

Ph.D.

Reconfiguring the Buddha’s Realm: Buddhist Stūpa Image and Worship in Early Medieval China, ca. 400 to 600 CE

Kamil Nowak

Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)

Ph.D.

Universal and Contextual Aspects of Mystical Experience in Chan Buddhism

Zhenru Zhou

University of Chicago

Ph.D.

Between the Virtual and the Real: A New Architecture of the Mogao Caves (Dunhuang, China) in 781-1036 CE

Qingyue Pan

Brown University

Ph.D.

From Slaves to Patrons: Eunuchs and Buddhism in Late Imperial China

Fang Xu

New York University

M.A.

Lan Li

McMaster University (Canada)

Ph.D.

Yang Xing

Columbia University

M.A.

A Study of Hanshan Deqing’s Commentaries on Daxue and Zhongyong

Sangyop Lee

Stanford University

Ph.D.

The Soteriology of the Soul: The Discourse on the Shen bumie 神不滅 Doctrine and the Indigenous Emergence of Buddhism in Early Medieval China

Dessislava Vendova

Columbia University

Ph.D.

The Great Life Story of the Body of Buddha: Re-examination and Re-assessment of the Images and Narratives of the Life of Buddha Shakyamuni

Lixia Dong

University of Arizona

Ph.D.

Chan Master as Abbot: A Study of Wuzhun Shifan

Qingyue Pan

Brown University

Ph.D.

Jesse Vance Young

Florida State Univ.

M.A.

Miracle Tales of the Lotus Sutra

Yi Ding

Stanford University

Ph.D.

Feasts, Caves, and Maṇḍalas: A Structural Analysis of Buddhist Liturgies in Dunhuang (late 8th to early 11th centuries)

Jingjing Li

McGill University (Canada)

Ph.D.

James Julian Butterfield

University of Toronto (Canada)

M.A.

What Are the Precepts? Doctrine, Vision, and Ritual in Chinese Bodhisattva Ordinations” “What Are the Precepts? Doctrine, Vision, and Ritual in Chinese Bodhisattva Ordinations

Jinhui Wu

University of Arizona

Ph.D.

Nelson Elliott Landry

Peking University

M.A.

Howard Shane Sum Cheuk Shing

University of Chicago

M.A.

Daniel R. Tuzzeo

Stanford University

Ph.D.

“Knower of Worlds”: An Intellectual History of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Cosmologies

Shuai Chen

Heidelberg University (Germany)

Ph.D.

Rethinking Indian Buddhist Logic in Tang China: including a Translation of the Sādhana Section of Kuiji’s Commentary on the Nyāyapraveśa

Ruifeng CHEN

McMaster University (Canada)

Ph.D.

Dunhuang Colophons of Chinese Buddhist Apocryphal Scriptures

Ven. Yanzheng (Lide RAO)

University of Hong Kong

Ph.D.

Corbin Nall

Florida State University

M.A.

Jiayi Zhu

Columbia University

M.A.

Rafal Felbur

Stanford University

Ph.D.

Anxiety of Emptiness: Sengrui, Self, and Scripture in Early Medieval Sinitic Buddhism

Jeffrey Nicolaisen

Duke University

Ph.D.

Juhee Jeong

Geumgang University

Ph.D.

Zhiyi(智顗)’s assimilation and criticism on the amalavijñāna in the theory of true nature endowed with unwholesome and wholesome (性具); in comparison with the Paramārtha’s though

Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt

University of California, Berkeley

M.A.

Debates in and Around the Three Levels Movement, as Portrayed in the Qiongzha bianhuo lun

Ruifeng CHEN

McMaster University (Canada)

Ph.D.

Ven. Yanzheng (Lide RAO)

University of Hong Kong

Ph.D.

Christopher Jon Jensen

McMaster University (Canada)

Ph.D.

Oneiric Visions and Waking Lives: Dream Narratives in Medieval Chinese Buddhism1

Ven. Guo Xing (Yu-Chen Tsui)

UCLA

Ph.D.

The Gong’an Writings of Hongzhi Zhengjue 宏智正覺  (1091-1157)