Ruifeng Chen, Ph.D. Student in Asian Field at McMaster University, received stipend for his travel to Kyoto from June 2019–August 2020. He is completing Ph.D. research on the colophons of Chinese Buddhist scriptures from Dunhuang under the supervision of Professor FUNAYAMA Toru at Kyoto University.
Ruifeng’s interests focus on the topics of Chinese Buddhist apocrypha, Chinese manuscriptology, and Chinese philology. Ruifeng is studying the Dunhuang colophons of Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scriptures for his Ph.D. dissertation.