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John Kieschnick
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies
John Kieschnick is The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies and co-director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford. John specializes in Chinese Buddhism, with particular emphasis on its cultural history. He is the author of the Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval China, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, and Buddhist Historiography in China. In connection with a regular graduate seminar, he has compiled a primer for reading Buddhist texts in Chinese.
John is currently writing a history of Chinese vegetarianism.
Ph.D., Stanford University (1996); B.A., University of California at Berkeley (1986).
