Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-29
• Mått: 155 x 235 x 33 mm
• Vikt: 1 144 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Studies on East Asian Religions
• Antal sidor: 616
• Förlag: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004744158

• Läromedel: religionskunskap

Jiang Wu is the Sarina and Ho Pak Kong Professor in Buddhist Studies andDirector of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the Chinese University of HongKong and Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Studiesat the University of Arizona. He is also special-term professor at the Schoolof Oriental Languages and Philosophy and Inamori Business School, ZhejiangGongshang University. He received his PhD in 2002 from Harvard University,specializing in Chinese Buddhism. He is the author of numerous articles andtwo major monographs published by Oxford University Press: Enlightenment inDispute and Leaving for the Rising Sun. He has also coedited several influentialvolumes on the Chinese Buddhist canon, including Spreading Buddha’s Wordin East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon(Columbia University Press, 2016), Reinventing the Tripitaka: Transformation ofthe Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia (Lexington Books, 2017), and RegionalReligious Systems in Greater China (Routledge Spatial Humanities Series, 2022).From 2017 to 2026 he served as the founding director of the Center for BuddhistStudies and has previously acted as the interim head of both the Departmentof East Asian Studies and the Department of Religious Studies and Classics.He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 to support his work on thehistory of the Ōbaku Canon and its transnational transmission in China, Japan,and Britain. Jeffrey Liu is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Dakota.He earned his PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona in 2024.His research applies digital humanities (GIS & spatial analysis) to the religiousand cultural history of late imperial China, focusing societal engagements withBuddhist monasteries derived from the Wulin fanzhi (Monastic Gazetteer ofHangzhou). He has worked on Hangzhou Buddhist culture since 2019, includinggeoparsing the Hangzhou fuzhi (2020) and organizing spatial datasets forthe Regional Religious Systems project (2021–2023). He also assisted with theSymposium on Jiangnan Buddhist Traditions (2021) and curated data for anonline art exhibition on Yinyuan Longqi (2022). His research has been supportedby the Khyentse Foundation, the Lingyin Buddhist Studies Fellowship,the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, and the Sheng Yen EducationFoundation’s Chinese Buddhist Studies Research Grant. He has published“The Making of a Sacred Landscape: Visualizing Hangzhou Buddhist Culturevia Geoparsing a Local Gazetteer, the Xianchun Lin’an zhi 咸淳臨安志” in Religions. At the University of South Dakota he teaches courses in world historyand religions, East Asian history, Buddhism, and digital humanities. Ines Ziling Wan is Research Assistant Professor of History at the University ofSouth Dakota. She earned her PhD in East Asian Studies and MS in GeographicInformation Systems Technology from the University of Arizona in 2026.Her research focuses on Buddhist miracle tales, Chan Buddhism, and digitalhumanities, particularly GIS. Through the miracle tale collection compiled byHuishan Jiexian, former abbot of Lingyin Monastery, she examines how miraclenarratives served as speech acts that authenticated karmic retribution andlegitimized religious authority, while their circulation was shaped by regionalsystems. Since 2019, she has worked on the Hangzhou Buddhist Culture Projectand the Regional Religious System Project at the Center for Buddhist Studies,University of Arizona, studying Hangzhou gazetteers and spatial data onBuddhist monasteries. Her peer-reviewed article on Buddhist monasteries inSouthern Song Hangzhou (Religions, 2022) won the Lingyin Buddhist StudiesBest Paper Award. Her research has been supported by the Chiang Ching-kuoFoundation and Khyentse Foundation and recognized with the China TimesCultural Foundation’s Young Scholar Award and Taiwan’s National Science andTechnology Council’s Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant. James Baskind earned his PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University, specializing in Ming Buddhism’s influence on Edo-period Ōbaku Zen. He hastaught at the University of Arizona, Nanzan University, and Kyūshū Institute ofTechnology, and previously held the position of Associate Professor at NagoyaCity University. His work has been supported by numerous grants from theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science. Notable works include co-editingThe Myōtei Dialogues (Brill, 2015), “The Pure Land Is No Heaven” (History ofReligions, 2018), “All or Nothing” (Religions, 2024), “A Daoist Immortal amongZen Monks” (The Eastern Buddhist, 2012), and “Poetry and Tea: A Blending ofGenres” (Global Tea Hut, 2023). His research explores Japanese intellectual history,Buddhist-Christian polemics, and tea culture. Jinhui Wu is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of WorldLanguages and Cultures at Chapman University. She earned her PhD in EastAsian Studies from the University of Arizona and her MA in Chinese Languageand Civilization from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on Chinese popular and Buddhist literature and thought from the seventeenthcentury to the early Republican era, with particular attention to narrativeimagination and visual–textual forms. Working at the intersection of literarystudies, religious studies, and cultural history, she examines how Buddhistcosmology, vernacular narrative, and print culture shaped moral imaginationand social identity in late imperial and modern China. She is also interestedin the afterlives of traditional motifs and narrative structures in modern literature,film, and digital media, especially the role of visualization technologiesin reconfiguring cultural memory. She is the recipient of several nationaland international fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship,a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and a KhyentseFoundation Graduate Student Award. Before joining Chapman University, shetaught at Reed College, Rollins College, and Lafayette College. Albert Welter is a retired professor at the University of Arizona, specializing inEast Asian Buddhism, particularly in China during the transition between theTang and Song dynasties and its impact in Japan during the Kamakura period.His involvement in the Hangzhou Region Buddhist Culture Project, supportedby the Khyentse Foundation, served as the inspiration for focusing onthe Hangzhou region as integral for developments in Chinese and East AsianBuddhism. Among his works related to Hangzhou Buddhism are his monographA Tale of Two Stūpas: Histories of Hangzhou Relic Veneration Through Twoof Its Most Enduring Monuments (Oxford University Press, 2022); The Role ofHangzhou in the Spread of East Asian Buddhism (guest editor, special issue ofthe International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, 2022); Approaches toChan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and Its Spread ThroughoutEast Asia (coeditor, SUNY Press, 2022); Buddhist Culture in the Greater HangzhouRegion (Jiangnan) and Its Dispersion Throughout East Asia (guest editor, specialissue of Religions, 2024).

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