Specialty
Buddhist Studies
Digital Humanities
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Dr. Jeffrey Liu is from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is a religious and digital historian in premodern China. He received his PhD in East Asian Studies (2024) and MS in Geographic Information System (PGIST, 2022) at the University of Arizona, and an MA in Buddhist Studies (2019) at Fo Guang University in Taiwan. Jeffrey investigates societal engagements with Buddhist temples in Hangzhou, a leading religious and cultural center in southern China.
Jeffrey is currently working on two projects funded by a grant. The first, "Regional Culture and Digital Humanities," involves editing The Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture. The second project, "Humanities and Wellness," focuses on translating two books that explore the intersection of Buddhism and integrative medicine: Mindfulness for Self-Healing: A New Mind-Body Approach Beyond Chinese and Western Medicine, and Reversing Chronic Illness: The Latest in 21st-Century Mindfulness Medicine.
East Asian history, Asian religions, digital humanities (GIS & spatial analysis)
Late imperial Chinese Buddhism, Chinese religious and social history, Buddhist temple gazetteers, Hangzhou Buddhism, historical geography, digital humanities