Johan Elverskog is Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Professor of Religious Studies, and, by courtesy, Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. He has published widely on the history of Buddhism across Asia and is the author and editor of 11 books and numerous articles. His current projects include A Barbarian History of China and The Fathers and Sons of Chinggis Khan. In 2025–26 he will be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
In the past decades, the Uyghurs in China have become known as an oppressed ethnic and religious minority in their homeland, today’s Xinjiang. Islam and Islamophobia are central to that story, but visitors to Xinjiang and students of Uyghur history know that there is another, lesser-known, Buddhist history and culture of the Uyghurs, which remain […]
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