People

Director

Shan Bai (Chinese education, Hani minority)
Igohr Brennand (Chinese Buddhist epistemology and hermeneutics)
Suzanne Burdorf (BOF grant researcher; Chinese historical phonology; Dunhuang manuscripts)
Sakda Hemthep (Vinaya and monastic life)
Ji Liang (CSC grant researcher; Economic monastic texts from Dunhuang)
Litian Liang (UGent/Sichuan Univ. CSC grant researcher; A Study of the Belief in the Planetary Deities in Dunhuang)
Jia Ruipeng (UGent/Renmin Univ. CSC grant researcher; Song Dynasty interrelation between Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism in garden aesthetics)
Yu Liu (late Ming 'Three Religions' philosophy)
Shuang Qian (Mohist logic and methodology)
Laurent Van Cutsem (Chan hermeneutics)
Wang Jie (CSC grant researcher; Six Dynasties poetry)
Wang Kai (Tang and Song Buddhist philosophy, the Perfect Enlightment Sutra)
Xiaoxiao Xu (20th century Chinese Buddhism)
Chen Zeng (medieval Chan idiomatic phrases)

Dr. Henry Albery (FWO grant researcher; Buddhist avadāna literature in the Indic Northwest)
Dr. Mick Deneckere (postdoctoral teaching staff, FWO grant researcher; Buddhism and the modernization of Japan)
Dr. Tom De Rauw (AAP; apologetic literature)
Dr. Lindsey DeWitt Prat (FWO grant researcher; East Asian Buddhism and Japanese religions, space, gender, heritage)
Dr. Charles DiSimone (FWO grant researcher; Buddhist sūtra manuscripts and literature)
Dr. Marie-Hélène Gorisse (BOF postdoctoral researcher; Jain and Buddhist philosophy)
Dr. Nan Ouyang (FWO grant researcher; Chinese religions, sacred geography)
Dr. Klaus Pinte (postdoctoral teaching staff, AAP; tantric Buddhism in Japan)
Dr. Anna Sokolova (Tang poetry and Buddhism)

Dr. Tzu-Lung Chiu (Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen; nuns in China/Taiwan)
Dr. Thomas Jülch (FWO grant researcher; Tiantai Buddhism; Buddhist apologetic literature)
Dr. Lifei Pan (PhD UGent: English translations of Chinese versions of Lotus Sutra)
Dr. Agnieszka Rostalska (PhD UGent; Indian realism from contemporary perspective)
Dr. Ben Van Overmeire (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Duke Kunshan University; Modern Zen Buddhist literature)

Prof. Dr. Christophe Vielle (Institut Orientaliste UCLouvain and Indology UGent; literature-philosophy India)
Dr. Gang Yang (PhD UGent; divination activities along the Silk Road)
Dr. Ang Zou (PhD UGent; Vinaya studies)

Chin-Yin Chang (lay Buddhism in Taiwan)
Dr. Dylan Esler (PhD student UCL; Tibetan Buddhism)
Dr. Laura Lettere (PhD UGent; Buddhist translation in medieval China)
Dr. Esther-Maria Guggenmos (post-doctoral researcher Universität Erlangen)
Dr. Claire Maes (Research Assistant of the FWO; relation Buddhism-Jainism)
Dr. Li Man (doctor-assistant; history of Chinese thought)
Dr. Ilona Manevskaia (postdoctoral researcher; Tibetan and Mongolian traditions)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Meisterernst (until 2009 guest professor UGent; Buddhist Chinese)
Prof. Dr. Eddy Moerloose (PhD UGent; Indology)
Dr. Yezi Mu (PhD UGent; Buddhist Chinese)
Dr. Gudrun Pinte (postdoctoral researcher BOF; Vinaya India-China, historiography)
Dr. Chun-Han Tu (Guest researcher from National Taiwan University; Buddhist ethics)
Dr. Chuan Wang (PhD UGent; modern Chinese Buddhism)
Dr. Tobias Wissler (PhD UGent; Buddhism and economics)
Dr. Li Xiang (PhD UGent; Consciousness Only Buddhism)
Dr. Jianhong Zeng (PhD UGent; Buddhist Chinese: passive constructions)
Dr. Ziyao Zhang (PhD UGent/Renmin University; Yongming poetic style and politics)

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