Daigengna Duoer

Ph.D. Student in Religion, University of California, Santa Barbara

Regional Focus: Mongolia, Manchuria, China
Date of Presentation: Session 7, March 25, 2021

Biography:

Daigengna Duoer (pronounced “dye-gain-na” “door”; she/her/hers) is interested in Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Her doctoral dissertation is a digital humanities project mapping transnational and trans regional networks of Buddhism in modern East Asia from Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, connecting Tibet, Republican China, and Imperial Japan. In addition to Buddhism, Daigengna also looks at how indigenous religious traditions, Islam, Christianity, and Shinto interacted with Buddhism in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia and Manchuria. Daigengna is a host for the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast, a channel on the New Books Network. She is also an editor of Mongolian Studies for the Digital Orientalist, an online magazine on digital humanities.