Students

The history of Buddhist drama, especially along the Silk Roads, The poetics of divine encounter across Mahāyāna literature and ritual

Anthropology of Buddhism, Buddhism in Taiwan and China

Buddhist material religion and visual culture, power objects, ritual from an art-historical perspective

embodiment, ritual performance, Great Perfection (Dzogchen), theories of time, space, and materiality, de-centering the human, ethics

Tibetan Buddhism, Revelatory traditions (in particular the Tibetan "terma" or Treasure tradition), Tibetan indigenous relationships to land, Ritual practices, Tibetan Buddhist cosmology, Environmental humanities

South and Central Asian Buddhist literary cultures, Gandhāran Buddhism, Early Chinese Buddhist translations, Manuscript studies

Buddhist Studies, Chinese religion

Social and cultural history of Chinese Buddhism in the Middle Period (7th to 13th centuries)