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. Daniela De Simone and Prof. Dr. Christoph Anderl, explores the portrayal of episodes of the Buddha’s life in the Dunhuang grottoes.
Mengqiu Tian has completed her Master study of Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens and Sinologie at Heidelberg Universität. He conducted fieldwork at Dunhuang grottoes (09, 2021) and the musée Guimet (01, 2022) funded by Heinz-Götze travel grant and was a one-year visitor of SOAS, University of London. Visited the Stein’s collection at the British Museum.