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Visiting Professor Bangwei Wang will give a lecture on "Searching for the Dharma in the West: Medieval Chinese Buddhist Pilgrims to India" on February 2nd. Professor Wang is a specialist on Sino-Indian cultural interactions, who is visiting from Peking University. The lecture is scheduled this Thursday for noon in UMC 225, the Art Gallery.

Bangwei WANG received his doctorate at Peking University in 1987, where he is currently Professor of the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Research Centre of Eastern Literature and the Centre for India Studies. His research includes textual studies of Buddhist literature (of Sanskrit and its Chinese translation), history of Buddhism (both of China and of India), Sino-Indian cultural interactions particularly those topics related to Buddhism, accounts of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims to India--Faxian, Xuanzang and Yijing--and the historical and religious sources related to these accounts. From 2007 to 2010 he joined the Nalanda Mentor Group for a project to re-establish a new Nalanda University in India and now is a member of the Governing Board of that university.

Professor Wang is visiting Â鶹¹ÙÍø at the invitation of the Department of Religious Studies. Thanks to Paul Kroll in Asian Languages and Literature for arranging this lecture.