Communication and interaction. An investigation on the cultural and religious history of Turfan in the 4th to 8th centuries

Start - End 

2022 - 2026 (ongoing)

Type 

PhD research

Department(s) 

Department of Languages and Cultures

Research group(s) 

GCBS - Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies

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Abstract

To be completed

People

Supervisor(s)

Ann Heirman

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• Area studies
• Asia
• Buddhism
• China
• Chinese
• Contemporary
• Far East
• Field research
• Gender
• History
• Language and text analysis
• Middle Ages
• Oriental languages
• Religion

Co-supervisor(s)

Christoph Anderl

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• Antiquity
• Area studies
• Art
• Asia
• Buddhist Chinese
• Buddhist hybrid Chinese
• Buddhist iconography
• Chinese
• Chinese Buddhism
• Chinese manuscripts
• Dunhuang studies
• Iconography and analysis of images
• Language and text analysis
• Late Antiquity
• Linguistics
• Medieval Chinese
• Middle Ages
• Oriental languages
• Religion
• Text and image relations

Phd Student(s)

Wenzhuo Shi

• Department of Languages and Cultures