Yinggang Sun

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Visiting Associate Professor
Address: 
34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511-8936

Research interests: “Images, Symbols and Politics: The Reception of the Cakravartin Ideal in Chinese Buddhist Political Ideologies” to examine Buddhism’s impact on Chinese monarchy, as well as Buddhist art during the medieval period, focused on the representation of Buddhist Cakravartin in stone sculptures, monumental buildings, Buddhist banners, as well as other forms of Buddhist art.

East Asian Studies
Acad Year (Current): 
2015-16
Program: 
Council on East Asian Studies