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Buddhism
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 creating an online digital database of Buddhist temples in Hangzhou from a Buddhist monastic gazetteer titled the Wulin Fanzhi.
East Asian history, Asian religions, digital humanities (GIS & spatial analysis)
Late imperial Chinese Buddhism, Chinese political and social history, Buddhist temple gazetteers, Hangzhou Buddhism, historical geography, digital humanities