Venerable Associate Professor Juewei

Venerable Dr Juewei is Associate Professor and Head of Program for Applied Buddhist Studies and Humanistic Buddhism, and Director of the Humanistic Buddhism Centre at Nan Tien Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, a Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering (with Honors). An ordained monastic in the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order since 2002, she brings over two decades of experience as a scholar-practitioner applying lived Buddhist wisdom to the challenges of our complex contemporary world.

Juewei’s scholarship focuses on Humanistic Buddhism, acculturation, and responses to contemporary issues including artificial intelligence, economics, and social crises. She is co-editor of  Cultivating Compassion: going beyond crises (Peter Lang, 2024), which emerged from the 8th International Symposium on Humanistic Buddhism that she co-organised in 2021. She also serves on the editorial board of Studies on Humanistic Buddhism journal and has co-edited a special issue for the Journal of Global Buddhism. She frequently contributes to public discourse on ethics and technology, including speaking on panels and interviews addressing artificial intelligence from Buddhist perspectives. Most recently she led a submission to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology Development Working Group on Data Governance titled Buddhist Data Principles.

As Director of the Humanistic Buddhism Centre since 2014, Juewei has secured over $2.5 million in research grants. She currently leads four major research initiatives:

• Buddhism in Australia – a multi-year funded project exploring Buddhist practices, wellbeing, belonging, and engagement in the Australian context

• Buddhism in the Sea of Islands – examining Buddhism across the Pacific region, with an accompanying webinar series

• MettāVerses – an initiative promoting communities of loving kindness online and in-person, counteracting social atomisation through community building

• Cloud-based academic translation projects – delivering seven volumes of the Studies on Humanistic Buddhism journal, and the upcoming English translation of The Light Transmission Record of Humanistic Buddhism by Venerable Master Hsing Yun.

In addition, Juewei actively engages with local and global communities. She leads the Humanistic Buddhism Special Interest Group of researchers and students to pursue and share academic interests in Humanistic Buddhism. She also oversees the Communities of Practice Sunday check-in sessions that provide a global online gathering place for sharing humanistic Buddhist values in daily life.

A summary of her academic publications and presentations is available on her ORCID profile.