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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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Jiang Wu Robert ho lecture
Wednesday
We are pleased to share that our director, Dr. Jiang Wu, recently delivered a lecture at The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University on February 6, 2025, and the recording is now available on YouTube. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/…
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canon 34
Feb. 19, 2025
The 34th issue provides readers with book and research news, studies in Buddhist manuscripts in Dunhuang, auctions, conferences, research notes on the Qisha Canon, and the Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Rare Books from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties…
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yuyu article
Feb. 17, 2025
Congrats to EAS (Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona) PhD student Yuyu Zhang for publishing a peer reviewed article entitled "Illusory Substances: Figure Painting and Eulogy in Chan Texts and Monasteries during the Song…

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