Wenliang Zhang was born on January 10th ,1966, in Hebei province. Undergraduate study was in philosophy at Renmin University from 1982 to 1987, where subsequently obtained MA in Chinese Philosophy (with a focus on Buddhism) in 1990. From 1990 to 1995, served as an assistant researcher at China’s Research Institute for Buddhist Culture. Between 1995 and 2004, studied at Tokyo University in Japan as an international student and received MA (in2000 年) and Ph.D. (in2004 年) both from the Department of Indian Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities. Has been appointed as a researcher at the Faculty of Humanities at Tokyo University, at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and at the Buddhist Culture Research Institute at Geumgang University of South Korea. Currently, a researcher and a Ph.D. supervisor at the Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory,Renmin University of China.
Research area covers the history of Buddhism in China, Hua-yan Philosophy, Zen (Chan) Buddhism, and Japanese Buddhism. Be the leading professor in a number of major research projects—“Japan’s Contemporary Studies of Chinese Buddhism”, “Japan’s Dun-huang Literature Studies”, “Contemporary Buddhism in Japan”.
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Prof. HE Guanghu: Born in Guizhou, 1950. Professor of Religious Studies and Christian Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing.
Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1989. Former Research-fellow at Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Visiting researcher or professor at Harvard University, Regent College (Vancouver), Baptist University of Hong Kong, University of Aarhus (Denmark), University of Birmingham, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Emmanuel College (University of Toronto), Institute of Sino-Christian Studies (Hong Kong), etc..