2012- 2019 DPhil in Anthropology
University of Oxford
Clarendon Scholar
2010- 2012 MPhil in Social Anthropology
University of Oxford
Clarendon Scholar
2008-2010 M.A. in Asian Studies (Chinese Studies)
Graduate Certificate in International Cultural Studies
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
East West Center Graduate Degree Fellow
1997-2004 Bachelor of Arts/Law (BA/LLB hons)
Diploma of Modern Languages (Chinese)
University of Melbourne
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PUBLICATIONS/TRANSLATIONS
PUBLICATIONS/TRANSLATIONS
CONFERENCE PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS
“Liberating lives”. In Holly Gayley (ed), Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2021, 175-208.
INALCO International Conference of the Metamorphosis of Buddhism in New Era China, Paris.
March 2019 “A Technology of Inclusion: Treasure Revelation in the Post-Mao Spread of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese Audiences.”
Interdisciplinary Treasure Seminar Series
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
November 2017 “The Larung Sinophone textual community: educating Chinese lay newcomers to Tibetan Buddhism.”
American Academy of Religion (AAR), Annual Conference, Boston
Panel: Voices from Larung Gar.
April 2017 “Disentangling the trope of the ‘Gyabla’ and the moral precariousness of being between Tibet and China.”
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Annual Conference, Toronto
Panel: Patronage, appropriation and transformation: Han Chinese
encounters with Tibetan Buddhism.
June 2016 “Liberating Lives between Tibet and China: the ritual release of animals and the Larung movement.”
Panel: Animals in the religion and culture of the Tibetan Plateau.
International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS), 14th International Seminar, Bergen.
June 2011 “The mutability of internal borders: transition, mobility and urban encounters on the fringes of China’s Tibetan areas.”
CNRS/INALCO International Conference on The Dynamics of China’s Borderlands, 18th–21st Centuries, Paris
