Dr. Darui Long

Faculty Profile

​Dr. Darui Long is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at University of the West. Dr. Long’s research focuses on rare editions of Chinese Buddhist canons, particularly the Yongle Northern Canon (14th-16th centuries). He has extensively studied extant copies of this canon in China, the US, Canada, and Poland. Notably, he rediscovered a unique Tangut language Lotus Sutra manuscript in the Jagiellonian Library, Poland (2017), the only known copy written in gold powder on indigo paper.

Dr. Long has published numerous papers on Chinese Buddhist canon, particularly the Yongle Northern Canon. He co-edited Chinese Buddhist Canons in the Age of Printing (Routledge, 2020) with Dr. Chen Jinhua. Twice honored with scholarships from Princeton University Library, he has collected a wealth of data for his research on Chinese Buddhist canon.

Since 2021, Dr. Long has served as editor-in-chief of the International Buddhist Canon Research Newsletter (University of Arizona) and is a member of the editorial committee of Shaolin Studies (Shaolin Monastery, China).

Professional Associations

• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
• International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS)
• Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC)

Selected Publications

• Long, Darui, and Jinhua Chen, eds. Chinese Buddhist Canons in the Age of Printing. Routledge, 2021.
• Long, Darui. “Emperors and Buddhist Canon: The Yongle Northern Canon and Dragon Canon.” In , edited by Katarzyna Marciniak et al., 259–294. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2022.
• Long, Darui. “Managing the Dharma Treasure: Collation, Carving, Printing, and Distribution of the Canon in Late Imperial China.” In Spreading Buddha’s Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, edited 1 by Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia, 219–246. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
• Long, Darui. “A Note on the Hongwu Nanzang, a Rare Edition of the Buddhist Canon.” The East Asian Library Journal 2, no. 2 (2000): 112–147.