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Zhinan is a MA student at the Department for the Study of Religion where she also received her BA. Her research focuses on Buddhist cosmology with a special interest in contextualization of Pali cosmography and astronomy manuscript from Burma. More generally, she is interested in the scientific Buddhist literature in the Pañcavidyā.