Program in Medieval Studies

Changzhong Bhiksuni (Shin Lee) is a scholar-practitioner of Chinese Buddhism. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Religions of East Asia in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University and a member of the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Sangha in Taiwan. She holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University. Ordained as a Buddhist bhiksuni in 2009, she has since led Chan retreats and taught Buddhist courses to the public. Her research focuses on premodern Chinese Buddhism, including Chan Buddhism, Buddhist itinerancy, monastic education, and institutional history, approached through textual, material, and historical analysis