The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite ...read more
This project aims two major goals (1) to trace the formation of regional monastic communities and the degree of their integration within larger monastic–secular networks in Tang dynasty China, and ...read more
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional ...read more
This research project examines the textual history and literary characteristics of the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 (Collection of the Patriarchal Hall , K.1503), i.e., the earliest extant Chán history (chánshǐ 禪史), or "lamp ...read more
The study concerns the disciplinary rules against theft found in the Pāli and Chinese Vinaya texts of early Buddhist schools and their link to Buddhist monastic life and the monastic ...read more
In the beginning of 2014, a new collaborative project on the analysis of the syntax of Medieval Chinese was initiated in the framework of the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies ...read more
This PhD research is a comparative historical anthropology of cross-cultural interaction and local exchange-relations in late 18th-century China (Guangzhou), Japan (Dejima) and India (Bengal & Ganges-delta region).In this research, cross-cultural ...read more
The Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies is launched as one of the five SHGW (social and behavioral sciences and humanities) research consortia at Ghent University. It operates within the larger ...read more
This research deals with the semantic and syntactic functions, and the contextualized usages of tense and aspect expressions in early Chinese Buddhist literature translated from Indic languages before the fifth ...read more
This PhD studies the reception of the Dharmaguptakavinaya in Medieval China. The focus lies on the most influential master, master Daoxuan, and his (1) relation to the imperial court, and ...read more