Director
Prof. Dr. Ann Heirman
Permanent members
Prof. Dr. Christoph Anderl
(Buddhist Chinese and Dunhuang studies)
Prof. Dr. Anna Andreeva
(Japanese Buddhism)
Prof. Dr. Eva De Clercq
(Jainism and relation with Buddhism)
Prof. Dr. Daniela De Simone
(Archaeology of Indian Buddhism)
Prof. Dr. Bart Dessein
(Buddhist philosophy and historiography)
Prof. Dr. Ann Heirman
(Vinaya and historiography)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Niehaus
(Languages and Cultures: Japanese Studies)
Prof. Dr. Christian Uhl
(Languages and Cultures: Japanese Studies)
Dr. Tom De Rauw
(AAP; apologetic literature)
Dr. Charles DiSimone
(FWO grant researcher; Buddhist sūtra manuscripts and literature)
Dr. Klaus Pinte
(postdoctoral teaching staff, AAP; tantric Buddhism in Japan)
PhD researchers
(Chinese education, Hani minority)
(Chinese Buddhist epistemology and hermeneutics)
(Vinaya and monastic life)
(CSC grant researcher; Economic monastic texts from Dunhuang)
(UGent/Sichuan Univ. CSC grant researcher; A Study of the Belief in the Planetary Deities in Dunhuang)
(Mohist logic and methodology)
(20th century Chinese Buddhism)
(medical and cultural history in Edo period Japan)
(sex work in contemporary Taiwan in a buddhist perspective)
(traditional Chinese art, particularly Buddhist art)
(Brahma imagery in Medieval Chinese Buddhism)
(Three Hares motif in the Dunhuang Mogao Caves)
(Chinese Buddhism during the period of division (220-589))
(modern exchanges between Western psychology and Buddhism)
(Buddhism in Turfan around the 5th century)
(aesthetic experience of smell within Daoist tradition)
(flying apsaras in the grottoes of the Northern Wei dynasty)
(Dunhuang mourning texts and their transmission to Japan)
(Vinaya texts, medieval Chinese linguistics, and Buddhist Hybrid Chinese
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Nan Ouyang
(FWO grant researcher; Chinese religions, sacred geography)
Dr. Anna Sokolova
(Tang poetry and Buddhism)
Dr. (Chan hermeneutics)
Dr. Lucas den Boer
(social history of Indian thought in the first millennium CE)
Dr. Mariia Lepneva
(Vinaya tradition in China during the Ming and Qing)
Dr. Paride Stortini
(BOF research fellow; intellectual and cultural history of Buddhism in modern and contemporary Japan)
Associate members
Dr. Tzu-Lung Chiu
(Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen; nuns in China/Taiwan)
Dr. (PhD UGent; Indian realism from contemporary perspective)
Dr. (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)
Dr. Mick Deneckere
(postdoctoral teaching staff, FWO grant researcher; Buddhism and the modernization of Japan)
Dr. Yi Ding
(voluntary researcher at Ghent; Buddhist feasts and observances in medieval China)
(PhD student UGent; comparative philosophy – particularly Sino – Vietnam, and East – West comparisons)
Former members
Dr. Dylan Esler
(PhD student UCL; Tibetan Buddhism)
Chin-Yin Chang
(lay Buddhism in Taiwan)
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)
Dr. Thomas Jülch
(FWO grant researcher; Tiantai Buddhism; Buddhist apologetic literature)
(BOF grant researcher; Chinese historical phonology; Dunhuang manuscripts)
(UGent/Renmin Univ. CSC grant researcher; Song Dynasty interrelation between Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism in garden aesthetics)
(late Ming ‘Three Religions’ philosophy)
Wang Jie
(CSC grant researcher; Six Dynasties poetry)
(Tang and Song Buddhist philosophy, the Perfect Enlightment Sutra)
(medieval Chan idiomatic phrases)
Dr. (FWO grant researcher; East Asian Buddhism and Japanese religions, space, gender, heritage)
Dr. (BOF postdoctoral researcher; Jain and Buddhist philosophy)
Dr. Henry Albery
(FWO grant researcher; Buddhist avadāna literature in the Indic Northwest)