Image caption:
Jizo Statues at Shiba Park in Tokyo. © Irene Lin
Doctoral Students
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
Email
nancychu [at] stanford.edu
Fields of interest
Anthropology of Buddhism, Buddhism in Taiwan and China
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2025
Email
palchen [at] stanford.edu
Fields of interest
Tibetan medicine, Buddhist ritual , Buddhist materiality
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2021
Email
hirschj [at] stanford.edu
Fields of interest
Buddhist material religion and visual culture, power objects, ritual from an art-historical perspective
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2020
Email
olavole [at] stanford.edu
Fields of interest
Tibetan Buddhism, Revelatory traditions (in particular the Tibetan "terma" or Treasure tradition), Tibetan indigenous relationships to land, Ritual practices, Tibetan Buddhist cosmology, Environmental humanities
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2013
Email
gracer [at] stanford.edu
Fields of interest
South and Central Asian Buddhist literary cultures, Gandhāran Buddhism, Early Chinese Buddhist translations, Manuscript studies
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2024
Email
xyxie [at] stanford.edu
Fields of interest
Buddhist narratives, Buddhist translations, Concept of sovereignty in religious literature