WANG Song Executive Director, Center for Buddhist Studies of Peking University Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University

WANG Song王頌

北京大学

Executive Director, Center for Buddhist Studies of Peking University

Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University

WANG Song received his B. A. and M. A. in Philosophy from Peking University and a Ph.D. in East AsianBuddhism from the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Tokyo. Prior to teaching atthe Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Peking University in 2005, he conducted hispostdoctoral research as Overseas Researcher of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

He has been teaching Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism at Peking Universitysince 2005.

He haspublishedthree books: A Study on the Thought of the Huayan School in the Song Dynasty (Beijing: ReligiousCulture Press, 2008), Japanese Buddhism: From the Beginning till 20th century (Beijing: Chinese SocialScience Academy Press, 2015), and A Critical Annotation and Study on the Huayan Fajie Guanmen(Beijing: Religious Culture Press, 2016), in addition to numerous papers on East Asian Buddhism inChinese, Japanese and English.

He is now focusing on the history and thought of Chinese HuayanSchool and a reconsideration of sects in Chinese Buddhism.