Thesis Title:
Information Organization, Reception and Transmission in Buddhist Philological Texts
Supervisor(s):
Dr Dirk Meyer and Dr Ming Tak Ted Hui
Biography:
Ziwei Ye is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. She holds an MA in Chinese Philology and a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Wuhan University, China. She was also a visiting research student at the Department of Chinese Literature of National Taiwan University in 2019 and Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures of Hamburg University, Germany, in 2023. Thanks to generous funding from the Sasakawa Fund Scholarship, the Lingyin Graduate Scholarship, the Glorisun Graduate Scholarship and the Khyentse Foundation PhD Scholarship, her current project examines Buddhist philological texts produced within both manuscript and print cultures in the Sinographic sphere.
Educational Background:
MA in Chinese Philology, Wuhan University
BA in Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University
Research interests:
Buddhist Glossaries; Chinese Philology; History of the Book and Print Culture; Manuscript Culture; History of Information
