Centre for Buddhist Studies
Interim Director, 2018-19
Tibetan art and religious visual culture
PhD Student
Tibetan religion, medicine and gender
MA student Esotericism, Ethnic identity, Western Buddhism.
MA Student Buddhist practices, Mongolia, Qing dynasty
PhD Student Usui Reiki Ryōhō, Esoteric Buddhism, Japan, and Hawaii
Visiting Scholar, Study of Religion Buddhism, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, Classical Chinese; Comparative Philology; Early Buddhist Transmissions
Ben Wood is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Ph.D. program in the Study of Religion (2012). His research considers the cultural history of Buddhism in Tibet and South Asia. He currently teaches at Langara College (Vancouver, BC). https://langara.academia.edu/BenjaminWood
Dr. Matthew King is Assistant Professor of Transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at UCR. His teaching and research broadly focuses on Tibetan and Mongolian religious identities in their transnational contexts since the early twentieth century; for example, Buddhist monastic historiography in circulation between immigrant populations in the greater LA area, Ulaanbaatar, and […]
