About - Matthew KING

Matthew KING is Professor of Transnational Buddhism at the University of California, Riverside. In broad conversation with the critical Asian humanities, his research explores the intellectual and social history of Buddhist thought along the late- and post-imperial frontiers of Tibet and Mongolia. His publications to date have explored such topics as counter-modernity, bodily and political discipline, scholastic knowledge practice, and Inner Asian mediations of the circulatory histories of Qing intellectual cultures and North Atlantic traditions of Orientalism, state socialism, and biomedicine. He is the author of Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia University Press, 2019) and In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press, 2022). He is also the co-author and co-translator, with Khenpo Kunga Sherab, of a complete annotated translation of Ameshab’s Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage (Wisdom Publications, 2024).