Guttorm Norberg Gundersen received his MPhil in East Asian Culture and History from the University of Oslo in his native country of Norway in 2017, where he wrote about Māra in Tiantai Zhiyi’s instructions on meditation. He is interested in traditions of...
Hwei Ru Ong received his MPhil in Buddhist Studies from the University of Oxford, where he worked on a critical edition of medieval Chinese Buddhist texts about Indian royalty. He is interested in reading commentarial literature (presently, that of the...
Kay (Ke) Chen’s research revolves around Buddhist monasticisms in middle-period East Asia. Her work explores how, during the formative period when Buddhist monastic rules first arrived in East Asia, these regulations and local monastic practices shaped...
The Joy of the Dharma: Esoteric Buddhism and the Early Medieval Transformation of Japanese Literature
