معرفی
Liying Kuo is a Director of Studies (Chinese Buddhism) at the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) since 2003, affiliated with the Collège de France and École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) since 1999. Her research spans Chinese Buddhism's evolution from the 1st to 11th centuries, focusing on manuscript-ritual correlations, iconography, and cross-cultural interactions across China, Japan, India, and Central Asia.
Her work integrates Dunhuang manuscript studies with fieldwork on Buddhist temples and archaeological sites. Key contributions include analyzing purification/confession rituals, Chinese Buddhist apocrypha, and dhāraṇī/mantra practices through epigraphic, iconographic, and textual lenses. Major publications address the Foding zunsheng tuoluoni jing and Jin'gangjun jing manuscripts.
She has received the Stanislas Julien Prize (1995) for her thesis Confession and Contrition in Chinese Buddhism. Her academic service includes organizing Dunhuang manuscript colloquia and contributing to Buddhist epigraphy through stone column inscriptions and Mogao Cave mural analyses.
