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Laurent Van Cutsem

Laurent Van Cutsem is a PhD student in Oriental Languages and Cultures (Sinology) and a member of the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University. He received a Master of Arts in Religious studies (2015) from the University of Louvain. His current project investigates aspects of textual history, editorial practices and intertextuality in the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 and the Jǐngdé chuándēng lù 景德傳燈錄. As a contributor to the Database of Medieval Chinese Texts 中古寫本資料庫, he is responsible for the collection of variant characters and the production of XML-based TEI editions of sections of the Zǔtáng jí and related Dūnhuáng manuscripts (e.g., the Quánzhōu Qiānfó xīnzhù zhūzǔshī sòng 泉州千佛新著諸祖師頌, Or.8210/S.1635). His research interests include Chán Buddhist literature, medieval Chinese manuscript culture, and TEI scholarly digital editions of pre-modern Chinese texts.