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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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Frogbear database
Thursday
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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Yoteng Bi defense pass
Monday
Congrats to Youteng Bi for successfully defending her PhD dissertation titled “Reading as the Path Toward Enlightenment: Ouyi Zhixu’s Reorganization of the Buddhist Canon in the 17th Century China.”  Committee members: Dr. Jiang Wu (Chair) Dr.…
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Tianyu article
April 12, 2024
Congrats to our EAS alumnus Dr. Tianyu Lei for publishing a peer reviewed article entitled "The making of a goddess: rethinking the history of the cult of Zhunti (Cundı̄) in China" in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2024, 1–23. https://doi.org…

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