Draft:Li Zijie 李 子捷

Li Zijie (, born 1987 in China) is an author and associate professor of history of Buddhism at Northwest University. He is also a Visiting Fellow of Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University.

Li has achieved a BA degree (in Japanese language and culture) and MA degree (in Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Philosophy) from Xi’an (China), and another MA degree (East Asian Buddhism) from Ryukoku University 龍谷大学 in Kyoto (Japan), and a Ph.D. degree (in East Asian Buddhism) from Komazawa University 駒澤大学 in Tokyo, Japan (under the guidance of Ishii Kosei 石井公成 and Matsumoto Shiro 松本史朗).

Li was subsequently elected as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Humanities of Kyoto University 京都大学人文科学研究所, under the guidance of Funayama Toru 船山徹. Meanwhile, he also worked as a part-time Lecturer at Komazawa University. From March 2020 until April 2022, he was a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS University of London (Centre of Buddhist Studies), hosted by Lucia Dolce. He is now a tenured Associate Professor at History School of Northwest University, China 西北大學歷史學院. Since 1st Sep 2023 until 31st Dec 2023, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University 北京大學人文社會科學研究院邀訪學者.

His main research area is the history of East Asian Buddhist Thought between the 5th and 7th centuries. He is the author of Kukyō ichijō hōshōron to higashiajia bukkyō: Go—nana seiki no nyoraizō, shinnyo, shushō no kenkyū『究竟一乗宝性論』と東アジア仏教 ── 五—七世紀の如来蔵・真如・種姓説の研究 [The Ratnagotravibhāga and East Asian Buddhism: A Study on the Tathāgatagarbha, Tathatā and Gotra between the 5th and 7th Centuries] (Tokyo: Kokusho kankokai 国書刊行会, 2020), in addition to a number of academic articles published in English, Japanese and Chinese.