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
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
This PhD project, based at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Program for Slavic and East European Studies at Ghent University, examines the Kosova students’ movements between 1968 and 1999. ...read more
The project explores Japanese interpretations of the culture and philosophy of the European Renaissance. Spanning the history of Japanese historiography on this topic - from the Meiji Restoration to the ...read more
This dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, it turns out that many artists and ...read more
Throughout Hindu imagery, we are confronted with demons dying at the hands of merciless goddesses. From the pan-Indian to the local level, this battle of the eternal adversaries endures, albeit ...read more
Jainism is a living Indian religious tradition, which rose around the sixth century BCE andlater developed into two branches: Digambarism and Śvetāmbarism. Central toDigambarism’s identity (dig-ambara, lit. "clothed in air") ...read more
Being enlisted as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO since 2010, Kalbeliya dance from Rajasthan is nowadays generally conceptualized as an ancient tradition from India. However, this same dance practice, also ...read more