Academic Staff

Dr. WANG Xingyi

Assistant Professor

Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, Vinaya Studies and Monasticism, Buddhist Ethics, Pure Land Buddhism, Yogācāra, Gender Studies, Buddhist Art

Research Fellow, Ryukoku University, Kyōto, Japan, 2022-present
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sheng Yen Educational Foundation, the Center for Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley. 2021-2023
Visiting Professor, Wesleyan University, 2020

“Vinaya Thought Seen from Dunhuang Manuscript ‘Essentials of Four Vinayas and Commentaries’ and Others” 敦煌出土律典『四部律幷論要用抄』などに見られる戒律思想. Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū (Journal of Indian and Buddhist studies), Vol. 71, 2023.
“Buddhist Nether World in Contemporary Chinese BL Literature.” Chinese Literature Essays Articles Reviews, Special Issue, 2023.
“Magic or Miracle? Rainmaking Ritual in Medieval Japanese Buddhism from a Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Interreligious Studies, Aug. 2022.

“Observing Buddhist Precepts by Divination: Practices According to Zhanchajing.” In Living Folk Religions, ed. by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey, London: Routledge, Apr. 2023.

Numata Research Fellowship, Ryukoku University, Japan, 2021-22.
Graduate Student Associates in Residence, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2020-21.
Buddhist Studies Scholarship, Khyentse Foundation, 2020.
Reischauer Institute Supplementary Dissertation Research Grant, Harvard University, 2018-2019.