Yixiu Jiang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

More information about Yixiu Jiang

Research project

Yixiu Jiang is a PhD student for the ERC project Open Philology: The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures. More about the project can be found here. 

PhD research

She is currently studying aryasvapnanirdeśa (a discourse on dreams), the 4th sūtra of mahāratnakūṭa collection.

Supervisor: prof. dr. J.A. Silk.

CV (education, employment, teaching, grants)

Yixiu Jiang studied Sanskrit and Pāli language at Peking University (BA 2014), followed by an MA at the same university (2017), with a thesis on Kharoṣṭhī manuscripts unearthed at Niya. 

Grants:

Khyentse Foundation Award for Excellence in Buddhist Studies, 2016

Publications

《中国所出佉卢文书记载的古鄯善国刑罚及其源流》（Punishment in Kharoṣṭhī Documents found in China and its Possible Origin），《西域文史》（第十二辑，2018