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Curious about old texts, faraway places, and the languages that connect them.
What I'm up to
Studying Chinese Studies at CUHK (New Asia College)
Beginning Sanskrit at Rangjung Yeshe Institute
Reading Dante's Purgatorio in parallel with Buddhist underworld texts
Learning German, slowly but surely
Recent Writing
Three Days on Wutai Mountain
The bus from Taiyuan climbs for hours before the five flat peaks appear through the fog. At Foguang Temple, the morning routine begins before …
Dante's Contrapasso and Chinese Diyu
In the Inferno, punishment mirrors the sin. In medieval Chinese underworld narratives, punishment follows bureaucratic logic. What happens when we …
Sanskrit Diary: Week One
The Devanagari script is beautiful but unforgiving. Every vowel matters. After years of Classical Chinese where so much is implied, Sanskrit demands …