Jinhua Chen, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Buddhism and business, market and merit: international conference exploring Buddhism's intersections with economics
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$24,950
Sacred geography: new perspectives on East Asian Buddhist sacred sites
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$129,500
The evolution of religion and morality
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$2,999,280

All 8 grants and awards

No publications available.

Buddhism and business, market and merit: international conference exploring Buddhism's intersections with economics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua

Keywords: Buddhism; economics; market; business; Buddhist economics; visual culture; material culture

$24,950

Sacred geography: new perspectives on East Asian Buddhist sacred sites

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua

Keywords: sacred space; monastery; religious legend; relic; image; borderland; monastic economy

$129,500

The evolution of religion and morality

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Partnership Grants

Keywords: religion; morality; evolution of religion; cognitive science of religion; prosociality; cultural evolution; gene-culture coevolution

$2,999,280

Buddhism and Daoism's politico economic roles in the Tang Restoration 704-713

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua

Keywords: Tang Buddhism; Tang daoism; monastic economics; Buddhist arts/architecture; Chinese politic sciences; Buddhist monasteries; feminism; Buddhist messianism; eminent monks

$77,000

Relic veneration in medieval China

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua

Keywords: relic; medieval China; state-church relationship; Sino-Indian ties

$86,113

Canada Research Chair in East Asian Buddhism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua JC

Keywords: buddhist palace chapels; relic-veneration; self-immolation; buddhism and economics; buddhist architectures

$500,000

A study of the biographies and hagiographies of the Avatamsaka Master Fazang, 643-712

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua

Keywords: religious hagio-biographies; East Asian Avatamsaka Buddhism; state-church relationship in medieval China; Fazang; empress wu; r 690-712; xylography; woodblock printing technology

$84,603

Canada Research Chair in East Asian Buddhism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Chen, Jinhua

Keywords: buddhism; east asia; religion; china; japan

$500,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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