Wen Zhong

With an interdisciplinary background in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, I am broadly interested in the intellectual history of Mahāyāna Buddhism in China and Japan, particularly its entanglements with ethics, narratives of transgression, and experiments in aesthetics and revolution. My current research examines the cultural history and textual tradition of monastic vegetarianism in China and Japan, along with my ongoing translation of a chapter from the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. In my free time, I enjoy practicing mixed martial arts and yoga, volunteering, reading poetry, listening to jazz and indie music, learning new languages, and continually exploring new hobbies