CRCAO member - China Team

Xiaoming Hou

Université de Californie

Presentation

I am a scholar of Chinese Buddhism specializing in cross-cultural transmission and the history of scholasticism. I received my Ph.D. from EPHE/PSL (École Pratique des Hautes Études/Université Paris Sciences et Lettres) in Paris, Department of Religions and Systems of Thought, in 2022. My doctoral thesis, entitled Pratiquer le bouddhisme en chinois: traduction et reconstruction des enseignements sur la méditation bouddhique du IIe au VIe siècles en Chine, focuses on the interdependent dynamics between meditation and exegesis in early medieval China. I also work on the early disciplinary history of Buddhism in Europe from the 18th to the 19th centuries through French translations of Buddhist texts. I am currently a Glorisun Postdoctorant in the University of California, Berkeley. 

Research thematics

  • History of exegesis and meditation in early medieval China
  • History of the translation of buddhist texts in Asia and in Europe

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