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
Bryan received his B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1969, afterwards pursuing a career in Communications & Marketing. He went back to school in 1991, receiving an MSc. (Geology) in 2001 from U of T. Since then he has been studying Buddhism, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali and Classical Chinese, pursuing […]
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 […]
