Yu-Chen (Guo-Xing) Tsui

PhD Student
Department: Asian Languages and Cultures Anthropology Art History Department
shiguoxing@gmail.com

Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, Cultural anthropology, India, Japan, South Asia, Tibet

Yu-Chen Tsui (Guo Xing fashi) received her MA (1995) in Latin American Studies from Tamkang University, with the thesis, “Reforms in Church-State Relationship during Salinas’s Presidency in Mexico.” She received a second MA (2010) in Religious Studies from Columbia University before coming to UCLA for her PhD in Buddhist Studies. She is primarily interested in Chan Buddhism during the Song period. Outside of her studies, Guo Xing actively practices sitting meditation.