This research looks into the role and impact of the Internet in reproducing and adapting religion in transnational contexts, through a case study of a South Asian religious tradition, namely ...read more
This project starts out from the vision books of Hildegard of Bingen, which present allegorical visions together with their exegesis. The project asks whether this use of allegorical creation could ...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
While the importance of ‘economic’ (i.e. en masse) copying by early 16th-century Netherlandish masters is widely accepted by art historians, the contribution of ‘creative’ copying to the art practice and theory before ...read more
This research project aims at inquiring one of the major features of modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism, i.e. the vinaya revival (jielü fuxing 戒律復興). In the Chinese Buddhist tradition the term ...read more
The concept of ‘harmful cultural practices’ has been increasingly used in development and humanrights discourse to refer to practices such as female genital cutting, honour related violence orforced marriages. However, ...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
The Zutang ji 祖堂集 (Collection of the Patriarchal Hall) is the earliest extant “lamp record” (denglu 燈錄) of the Chan tradition arranged around a full-fledged genealogical framework. Initially compiled as ...read more