Daniel Boucher is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions and Buddhism at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the transmission of Buddhism from India to China under the guidance of Victor H. Mair. His scholarly focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of the Common Era.

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  • Daniel Boucher is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions and Buddhism at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the transmission of Buddhism from India to China under the guidance of Victor H. Mair. His scholarly focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of the Common Era. Professor Boucher's interests also include translation as a religious genre, with special focus on the earliest translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese; Buddhist Middle Indo-Aryan, particularly the role of Gandhari Prakrit in the earliest transmission of Buddhism to Central Asia and China; art historical, epigraphical, and archeological materials as sources for the study of religion; and history, theory, and methods in the academic study of religion.
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  • Daniel Boucher is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions and Buddhism at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the transmission of Buddhism from India to China under the guidance of Victor H. Mair. His scholarly focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of the Common Era.
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