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Center for Buddhist Studies

Promoting academic research on the Buddhist tradition and its related religious, intellectual, social, cultural, and artistic aspects around the world

Our center provides regional, national, and international leadership in the academic field of Buddhist studies.

Collaborating with academic units and communities within and outside the university, the center’s activities include a Buddhist studies lecture series, rare Buddhist archive preservation, financial assistance to scholars and students of Buddhist studies, hosting academic conferences and workshops, a visiting scholar program, contemplative studies and community outreach.

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There is a new home planned for the Center for Buddhist Studies within the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

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Lu Zhang defense
Wednesday
Congrats to Lu Zhang for successfully defending her PhD dissertation titled “From “A Separate Transmission” to “An All-Embracing Teaching”: A Study on the “Yinghua Shengxian” Sections in Song Chan Historiographies.”  Committee members:Dr. Albert…
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recording of "Webinar Series 3 -- Mapping the Global East"
Monday
The recording of "Webinar Series 3 -- Mapping the Global East" is now available online on the YouTube channel of the Center on Religion and the Global East (CRGE) at Purdue University (https://youtu.be/vstQ14JeN14?feature=shared). The Center on…
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Frogbear database
April 18, 2024
We are pleased to share that the FROGBEAR (From The Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions) Database of Religious Sites in East Asia has been enriched with a collection of 35 records featuring plaques, couplets, and calligraphies from…

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