Dr. Jinkyoung Choi is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the ERC project "Corpora in Greater Gandhāra" at Ghent University. Her academic research specializes in Buddhist philology, with a focus on the study of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts. This includes texts such as the Dīrghāgama, discovered in the Gilgit area in the 1990s, and the Yogācārabhūmi, found in locations including St. Petersburg, Kathmandu, and Lhasa. Since 2019, Dr. Choi has also been the owner of Laifufu Teesalon in Munich, Germany, where she promotes tea education and offers tea ceremonies to the public. This entrepreneurial venture has expanded her academic interests, prompting her exploration of the intersection between tea culture and Buddhism across Asia. After serving as the Numata Visiting Professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University for the 2022–23 academic year, where she taught the course "Tea and Buddhism," she continues to teach an evolving version of the course at the University of Munich.
