Lina Verchery is a scholar of religion and an independent filmmaker.

 

Lina Verchery is a filmmaker and scholar of Buddhist Studies who teaches at Victoria University of Wellington. She holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies and an M.Div. in Buddhist Ministry, both from Harvard University.

Lina’s teaching and research centre on how the philosophies, literatures, and practices of Buddhism can illuminate contemporary questions of urgent concern. A trained ethnographer, her areas of expertise include contemporary Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist monastic life, as well as the intersections of Buddhism and art, interspecies ethics, and environmental anthropology.

Lina is the Buddhism Program Advisor to the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global and executive editor of the Yin-Cheng Journal of Contemporary Buddhism. An award-winning filmmaker, Lina’s documentary, experimental, and educational films about Buddhism and connected topics have been screened in festivals and on televisions networks around the world.

Lina welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students whose research aspirations align with her areas of expertise, especially the intersection of Buddhist Studies and lived religion, monasticism, religion and modernity, the environmental humanities, and film/media ethnography. 

 
 
 
 

 TEACHING

 

Dr. Lina Verchery’s course offerings include the following, which she has taught at Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Otago, Union College, and Harvard University.

 
 

 SPEAKING

 

University of Hong Kong. 10th Annual MaMa Charitable Foundation Lecture: “Buddhism and the Senses: The Sense of Smell.”

University of Toronto, Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies. “‘How Do You Do It?’ Series: Working with Film and Video in Buddhist Studies.” 

 

Radio-Canada. “Apéro des idées: Entrevue avec cinéaste Lina Verchery.”

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Lina Verchery's documentary, experimental, and educational works explore religion, language and cultural identity.

 

Lina Verchery's works have been featured in-market at the Cannes Film Festival, the Montreal International Documentary Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, le Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, the Atlantic Film Festival, Le Festival Interceltique Lorient, le Forum International de la Francophonie à Québec, le Congrès Mondial Acadien, Athens International Film and Video Festival, the Salem Film Festival, Harvard Arts First!, as well as on television networks including the Oprah Winfrey Network, Bravo!, TV5 Monde, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Télévision Radio-Canada, and TV Ontario.

 

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Religion ~ Language and Identity ~ Experimental


Contact

lina.verchery@vuw.ac.nz