Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies

Research and Fundings Fellowship for Graduate Students

In the early period, the grants offered by the CHIBS mainly focused on supporting excellent students to study abroad. In order to raise international visibility of Chinese Buddhism and the qualities of Chinese Buddhist research, the Institute started to offer graduate research grants written in English to inspire more interest in this field since 2011.

The Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies (CHIBS) is conducting an annual fellowship program for graduate students who are working on pre-modern Chinese Buddhism to support their research dissertation writing.
For Master Students:
The fellowship will be awarded to students for thesis writing for a grant of up to US $3000.

For PhD. Students:
The fellowship will be awarded to students for research at three stages:
1. Pre-generals reconnaissance research: up to US $4,000
2. Post-generals dissertation research: up to US $10,000
3. Dissertation writing: up to US $10,000

An applicant can only apply for one fellowship at a time. Deadline for receipt of application materials is set on March 1st. For more detailed information, please refer to the project announcement “CHIBS Fellowship for Graduate Students.”

Contact information:

Phone: (+886-2) 24987171 ext. 2339
Fax: (+886-2) 24981176
E-mail: grant@ddmf.org.tw
Website: http://www.chibs.edu.tw
Mailing address:
Dharma Drum Mountain
The Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
No. 555, Fagu Rd., Sanjie Village, Jinshan Dist.
New Taipei City 208303, Taiwan, R.O.C.

List of Scholarships Awardees

Year	Recipient	School	Degree	Title
2020	Lu Zhang	University of Arizona	Ph.D.	Presenting the Buddha: The “Sages and Worthies as Incarnations” in Chan Historiographies in Song China
	Jinchao ZHAO	University of Virginia	Ph.D.	Reconfiguring the Buddha’s Realm: Buddhist Stūpa Image and Worship in Early Medieval China, ca. 400 to 600 CE
	Kamil Nowak	Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)	Ph.D.	Universal and Contextual Aspects of Mystical Experience in Chan Buddhism
	Zhenru Zhou	University of Chicago	Ph.D.	Between the Virtual and the Real: A New Architecture of the Mogao Caves (Dunhuang, China) in 781-1036 CE
	Qingyue Pan	Brown University	Ph.D.	From Slaves to Patrons: Eunuchs and Buddhism in Late Imperial China
	Fang Xu	New York University	M.A.
	Lan Li	McMaster University (Canada)	Ph.D.
	Yang Xing	Columbia University	M.A.	A Study of Hanshan Deqing’s Commentaries on Daxue and Zhongyong
2019	Sangyop Lee	Stanford University	Ph.D.	The Soteriology of the Soul: The Discourse on the Shen bumie 神不滅 Doctrine and the Indigenous Emergence of Buddhism in Early Medieval China
	Dessislava Vendova	Columbia University	Ph.D.	The Great Life Story of the Body of Buddha: Re-examination and Re-assessment of the Images and Narratives of the Life of Buddha Shakyamuni
	Lixia Dong	University of Arizona	Ph.D.	Chan Master as Abbot: A Study of Wuzhun Shifan
	Qingyue Pan	Brown University	Ph.D.
	Jesse Vance Young	Florida State Univ.	M.A.	Miracle Tales of the Lotus Sutra
2018	Yi Ding	Stanford University	Ph.D.	Feasts, Caves, and Maṇḍalas: A Structural Analysis of Buddhist Liturgies in Dunhuang (late 8th to early 11th centuries)
	Jingjing Li	McGill University (Canada)	Ph.D.
	James Julian Butterfield	University of Toronto (Canada)	M.A.	What Are the Precepts? Doctrine, Vision, and Ritual in Chinese Bodhisattva Ordinations” “What Are the Precepts? Doctrine, Vision, and Ritual in Chinese Bodhisattva Ordinations
	Jinhui Wu	University of Arizona	Ph.D.
	Nelson Elliott Landry	Peking University	M.A.
	Howard Shane Sum Cheuk Shing	University of Chicago	M.A.
2017	Daniel R. Tuzzeo	Stanford University	Ph.D.	“Knower of Worlds”: An Intellectual History of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Cosmologies
	Shuai Chen	Heidelberg University (Germany)	Ph.D.	Rethinking Indian Buddhist Logic in Tang China: including a Translation of the Sādhana Section of Kuiji’s Commentary on the Nyāyapraveśa
	Ruifeng CHEN	McMaster University (Canada)	Ph.D.	Dunhuang Colophons of Chinese Buddhist Apocryphal Scriptures
	Ven. Yanzheng (Lide RAO)	University of Hong Kong	Ph.D.
	Corbin Nall	Florida State University	M.A.
	Jiayi Zhu	Columbia University	M.A.
2016	Rafal Felbur	Stanford University	Ph.D.	Anxiety of Emptiness: Sengrui, Self, and Scripture in Early Medieval Sinitic Buddhism
	Jeffrey Nicolaisen	Duke University	Ph.D.
	Juhee Jeong	Geumgang University	Ph.D.	Zhiyi(智顗)’s assimilation and criticism on the amalavijñāna in the theory of true nature endowed with unwholesome and wholesome (性具); in comparison with the Paramārtha’s though
	Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt	University of California, Berkeley	M.A.	Debates in and Around the Three Levels Movement, as Portrayed in the Qiongzha bianhuo lun
	Ruifeng CHEN	McMaster University (Canada)	Ph.D.
	Ven. Yanzheng (Lide RAO)	University of Hong Kong	Ph.D.
2015	Christopher Jon Jensen	McMaster University (Canada)	Ph.D.	Oneiric Visions and Waking Lives: Dream Narratives in Medieval Chinese Buddhism1
2015	Ven. Guo Xing (Yu-Chen Tsui)	UCLA	Ph.D.	The Gong’an Writings of Hongzhi Zhengjue 宏智正覺 (1091-1157)