The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies opened its 2025–26 reading group on September 11, 2025, with a focus on rare Vinaya (monastic discipline) texts from Dunhuang. For the first three sessions, the group will engage with primary sources studied by Zixuan Wang, joint PhD student of the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies and the Institute of Dunhuang Studies, Lanzhou University. Her doctoral project, “A Study of Buddhist Vinaya Texts from Dunhuang Excluded from the Taishō Tripiṭaka”, examines materials outside the standard Chinese Buddhist canon. The inaugural meeting explored one such text, concentrating on passages concerning the establishment of monastic boundaries (结界).
