Daniela Campo is a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg. A Sinologist and historian by training, she is interested in the relationship between, on the one hand, the birth of a ‘modern Chinese Buddhism’ from the end of the empire to the Republican era and, on the other, the reconstruction of Buddhism in the post-Maoist era and up to the present day. She has studied the links between hagiographic writing and the formation of religious leadership, and has subsequently focused on the evolution of the institutions (Dharma lineages, monastic discipline and education) and practices (meditation techniques and forms of teaching) of Chinese Buddhism, and of the Chan school in particular, in the twentieth century. Most of her work combines analysis of textual sources and fieldwork. She is the author of La construction de la sainteté dans la Chine moderne : la vie du maître bouddhiste Xuyun (2013) and co-edited the book ‘Take the Vinaya as Your Master’. Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism (with Ester Bianchi, 2023).