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Joshua Esler

Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, Australia

Joshua Esler is a Director of the Indian Ocean Research Centre at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, where he is also a lecturer and researcher in Asian Studies. His research is focused on the diffusion of Tibetan Buddhism among Chinese communities, both in historic and contemporary contexts, the subject of his recent book Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese (2020). His wider research interests include the diffusion of Buddhism across maritime and land trade routes, and how this in turn influenced developments in both Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism. He recently edited the multi-disciplinary book, Indian Ocean Imaginings: People Time and Space (Lexington, 2022).

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