Joie Szu-Chiao Chen is a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies (Study of Religion) at Harvard University, where her research interests include pre-modern Tibetan religious life writing, institutional history, travel literature, and Buddhist art. She is the Chinese communications coordinator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen
Recent Articles
Buddhadharma on Books: Fall 2023
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews seven new books for the Fall 2023 issue of Buddhadharma.
Buddhadharma on Books: Summer 2023
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews eight new books for the Summer 2023 issue of Buddhadharma.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2023
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews "The Two Truths in Indian Buddhism," "Buddhist Ecological Protection of Space," "Forgiveness: An Alternative Account," and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Fall 2022
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews Lauren Shufran’s "The Buddha and the Bard: Where Shakespeare’s Stage Meets Buddhist Scriptures," Rachael Stevens’ "Red Tara: The Female Buddha of Power and Magnetism," a new translation of Dogen’s Zuimonki, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Summer 2022
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews Through the Forests of Every Color by Joan Sutherland, Renunciation and Longing by Annabella Pitkin, The Dharma in DNA by Dee Denver, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2022
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews Seeing with the Eye of Dhamma by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World by Daniel Capper, Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism by Karen O'Brien-Kop, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Winter 2021
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews "We Were Made for These Times" by Kaira Jewel Lingo, "The Wakeful Bod" by Willa Baker Blythe, "The Buddha’s Tooth" by John S. Strong, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Fall 2021
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews What I Don’t Know about Death by C. W. Huntington, The Guru Principle by Shenpen Hookham, Questioning the Buddha by Peter Skilling, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2021
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews "Be the Refuge" by Chenxing Han, "Esoteric Theravada" by Kate Crosby, "Superiority Conceit" by Bhikkhu Analayo, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Winter 2020
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews "Praise of Great Compassion" by the Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron, "America’s Racial Karma" by Larry Ward, "Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali" by Bhikkhu Bodhi, and more.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Fall 2020
Book reviews by Joie Szu-Chiao Chen from the Fall 2020 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Summer 2020
Book reviews by Joie Szu-Chiao Chen from the Summer 2020 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2020
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews "The First Free Women" by Matty Weingast, "Tsongkhapa" by Thupten Jinpa, "Dharma Matters" by Jan Willis, and more.