Pu, Chengzhong

Shanghai University, PRC


  • March 23–May 25, 2018. Ghent University

Chengzhong Pu completed his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at SOAS, London University and did a one-year Post-doctorate with Professor Jonathan Silk at LIAS, Leiden University, followed by serving as an associate researcher for nearly a year at the Research Centre for Humanistic Buddhism, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a lecturer at Shanghai University.

As a visiting scholar at the Ghent University, his current research topic is “A Preliminary Study of the Shi’er you jing (十二遊經)”, trying to investigate this dubious Buddhist scripture through tracing some information in the text to Chinese Buddhist translations. A short video of him describing his research is available on YouTube.