
Mt. Fuji, Lake Kawaguchiko, Japan. Photo credit: Irene Lin
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PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2019
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The history of Buddhist drama, especially along the Silk Roads, The poetics of divine encounter across Mahāyāna literature and ritual
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
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Anthropology of Buddhism, Buddhism in Taiwan and China
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
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Ritual studies, Buddhist literature and history, Comparative religion
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2021
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Buddhist material religion and visual culture, power objects, ritual from an art-historical perspective
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
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embodiment, ritual performance, Great Perfection (Dzogchen), theories of time, space, and materiality, de-centering the human, ethics
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2020
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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 2016
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Female deities, Popular practices, Demonology, Chinese and Japanese material culture, Violence in religious practices
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2013
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South and Central Asian Buddhist literary cultures, Gandhāran Buddhism, Early Chinese Buddhist translations, Manuscript studies
PhD Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
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Buddhist Studies, Chinese religion