Jeffrey Kotyk

Jeffrey Kotyk (PhD, Leiden University, 2017) has researched the relationship between China and the wider world in late antiquity with a particular focus on the eastward transmission of sciences (astronomy, astrology, medicine, and metallurgy) to East Asia. His research has also covered Buddhist Studies and Japanese history. His recent survey, “Astrology and Astral Magic in Tantric Japan” appears in the The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies (2024). He is presently participating in the Dept. III Working Group “Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)”, where he is contributing to the database and authoring a book on cosmology in premodern East Asia. He is the author of Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium (Brill, 2024), a comprehensive study on the historical relations between West and East Asia. He has published studies in journals such as T’oung Pao, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, and Asia Major. He has held grants and scholarships from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Sheng Yen Education Foundation, Robert H. N. Ho Foundation, and Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai. In the past, he has translated academic publications from Chinese and Japanese into English. He also has translated Classical Buddhist Chinese texts.