Henry Wu

✉️ wu_henry@outlook.com

I am a PhD student in Buddhist studies at the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

My doctoral thesis is about the translation practice of Kumārajīva (c. 350s–c. 411) and his disciples, focussing in particular on their 406 CE translation of the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa.

My research interests include:
- Buddhist translations and commentaries in East Asia
- The acculturation of Buddhism in Six Dynasties/Early Medieval China
- The permeable relationship between translation and exegesis across Buddhist traditions
- The history of translation and cross-cultural exchange, especially in premodern Asia
- Historical linguistics, textual criticism and manuscript studies in general, including computational approaches to philology