Shuman Chen

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Shuman or Shu-chen
LastName / namelast	Chen
MainNamePhon	Shuman Chen
namealt	Jiane Shi
bio	Shuman Chen’s primary research is Chinese Tiantai Buddhist philosophy. Her secondary research interests include Chan/Zen Buddhism, Buddhist art, and Daoist philosophy. With a hermeneutic approach, her dissertation explores the idea of the Buddha-nature of insentient beings in the Chinese and Japanese Buddhist traditions, with a focus on the philosophy of Jingxi Zhanran in the Tang dynasty. Her dissertation also covers East Asian art with a discussion on how plants are portrayed as sages and why pagodas and relics might be considered sentient. From an environmental perspective, she also examines how to appreciate the insentient world’s Buddha-nature, hoping to increase our awareness of the mutual relationship between human beings and nature. (Source Accessed Jul 21, 2020)
phduniversity	Northwestern University
IsInGyatsa	No
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Full Name

Shu-chen Chen