Speaker Profile

Professor Charles Willemen

Professor Charles Willemen of Belgium specialises in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma and Literary Chinese. He obtained his PhD in 1971 with a study of the Chinese Udanavarga. Subsequently, he studied in Japan under H. Nakamura ( University of Tokyo, 1972). In 1974 he was Fullbright-Hays Visiting Scholar (Harvard University, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilisations). He has taught at many universities in Europe and in Asia (e.g., Guest Professor: Beijing Language and Culture University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Banaras Hindu University, Nava Naland Mahavihara, Vishvabharati University in Shantineketan). He has published extensively about Buddhism in South and East Asia and about Chinese art. Dr. Willimen is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (since 1997). He has presented his research papers in China, US, Canada, Western Europe, India and Japan. He is currently the Rector and teaching professor of International Buddhist College, Thailand.

Professor Lalji

Professor Lalji specialises in Abhidharma Studies. He obtained a Master of Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy both in Banaras Hindu University, India. He is a lecturer and Head of Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. He has translated, edited and published many academic books and articles.

Professor Kamal Sheel
Professor Kamal Sheel of Chinese Studies at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India is the founder coordinator of the Inter-Cultural Studies Centre and the Malaviya Centre for Ethics & Human Values. He has earlier served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2009 to 2012. He did his B.A. Honours in History from the Banaras Hindu University and had graduate training in Chinese language and history at Fu-Jen Catholic University and the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He earned his Ph.D. in the field of Modern Chinese History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He has been Visiting Fellow at Wisconsin- Madison, Yale, Copenhagen, Beijing, Singapore, Taiwan etc universities. His current research interest primarily lies in the area of social and intellectual history of China and cultural interaction and encounters in Asia with focus on India and China.

Dr. Fa Qing

Dr. Fa Qing of China received his PhD from the University of Calgary, Canada in 2001. He worked as an assistant and lecturer at the University of Calgary and at the Than Hsiang Buddhist Research Center. In 2003 he was assigned to Hadyai to assist in the establishment of the International Buddhist College. Being a senior lecturer he is also the Head of Library and Information Technology and is responsible for the E-learning Project of the college.

李崇峰博士

李崇峰博士毕业于德里大学(University of Delhi)哲学博士，现任北京大学教授，教学与科研领域为印度、中亚和中国的佛教考古与佛教艺术研究。代表作为【中印佛教石窟寺比较研究：以塔庙窟为中心/Indian and Chinese Buddhist Chētiyaghāras: A Comparative Study】和【佛教考古：从印度到中国/Buddhist Archaeology: From India to China】.

黄夏年硕士

黄夏年硕士毕业于中国社会科学院世界宗教研究系，专业宗教学，方向佛教学。现为中国社会科学院世界宗教研究所杂志社编审、杂志社社长。其撰写的研究论文，广涉佛教、中国景教、中国伊斯兰教、东南亚德教等领域。其学术专著有《佛寺采风——中国佛寺漫谈》（台北：台湾东大图书股份有限公司，2004年）、《中外佛教人物论》，（北京：宗教文化出版社，2005年）、《东来西去——中外古代佛教史论集》（北京：中国社会科学出版社，2006年）等。

刘震博士

刘震博士毕业于德国慕尼黑大学印度伊朗学系（Indologie und Iranistik），现为复旦大学文史研究院任副研究员。教学与科研领域为吠陀和吠陀宗教文学、中印文学比较、印度大小乘佛教、印、藏、汉佛教文献比较及梵语写本。其著作为《<弥勒下生成佛经>——各个版本的比较并附梵本的德译》；《摩咥里制吒的<广赞功德赞>》评介，发表在《东方文学研究通讯》；《浅谈巴利三藏》，发表在《新疆文物》；《印度的时间划分及四纪元构想》，《复旦史学集刊》第2辑；《禅定和苦修——关于佛传原初梵本的发现和研究》； 《禅定和苦修——关于佛传原初梵本的发现和研究》。