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New member: Siqi Tang (4/2/2025) - Siqi Tang is a visting PhD student sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) within the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. She holds a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from Chongqing University and is currently pursuing a… Read more
New member: Jing Liu (3/30/2025) - Jing Liu is a visting PhD student within the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. She holds a Master’s degree from Shanghai University and is currently pursuing a PhD there. Her current research project “Bide 比德: A Study on… Read more
2025 PTBS Lecture Series (2/24/2025) - Buddhism is a driving force in many regions of the world. Yet many aspects of it remain unknown. This is especially true when it comes to everyday praxis, to people now and in the past who incorporate Buddhism into their… Read more
New member: Mengqiu Tian (2/8/2025) - Mengqiu Tian is PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies within the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. Her research project "Vignettes of the Life of the Buddha at Dunhuang during the Tang and Five Dynasties", supervised by Prof. Dr.… Read more
Fieldwork of GCBS researcher Ven. Hui Wen (11/17/2024) - Venerable Hui Wen, a Phd student at GCBS, has just completed a field trip to the Mogao 莫高 caves in Dunhuang 敦煌, Gansu Province, in the framework of her research on the iconography and symbolic representations found at the center… Read more
New member: August Sundin (10/25/2024) - August Sundin is PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies within the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. He is a member of the project "Corpora in Greater Gandhāra. Tracing the development of Buddhist Textuality and Gilgit/Bamiyan manuscript networks in… Read more
Indian ambassadors’s visit, October 10, 2024 (10/14/2024) - On 10th October, Mr Saurabh Kumar, Ambassador of India to Belgium and Luxembourg, and to the European Union, accompanied by Mr Venkateswaran Narayanan, First Secretary Press, Information and Culture visited Universiteit Gent to meet the Rector, Prof Rik Van de… Read more