Yi Ding received his bachelor's degree from Fudan University (2008) and his PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University (2020). As a scholar of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism, he has published several articles that deal with Buddhist materials from Dunhuang and Sino-Tibetan Buddhism. As a voluntary researcher at Ghent, he works on finalizing a book manuscript that focuses on various forms of Buddhist feasts and observances in medieval China.
