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The history of Tibetan medicine in Russia; Tibetan Buddhism in Buryatia; Inner Asian frontier regions; Post-imperial Inner Asia; Post-socialist Siberia and Mongolia.

Religious, cultural, and social histories of Muslim societies in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union, with regional focuses on Transoxania and the Volga-Urals.

Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004), and the author of numerous publications ranging from early Chinese bronzes to...

Research Interests: Music and oral poetry in South Asia, Tajikistan, Northern Afghanistan, and Xinjiang China; Persian/Dari/Tajiki and Wakhi languages in Central Asia, Tamil, Urdu and Kota in South Asia

The Treasure Tradition in Tibet, Sino-Tibetan Political and Intellectual History, and Textual Scholarship.

Buddhist Art of China and Inner Asia from the 10 th to the 14 th century, Buddhist publishing and printing culture, Buddhist Art in Dunhuang during the Tibetan and Post-Tibetan periods, 786-1036.

Intellectual and social history of late Imperial China; Trans-Imperial Mobility; Islamic networks across Inner Asia.