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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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Ouyang
Wednesday
Nan Ouyang, a PhD alumna of the University of Arizona (Department of East Asian Studies and Center for Buddhist Studies), will publish her first book, Constructing the Divine Abode of Dizang Bodhisattva: Mount Jiuhua in Late Imperial China (14th to…
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back to school
Tuesday
Welcome to the start of a new academic year at the University of Arizona! We are delighted to welcome our new and returning students, and our faculty and staff to the new academic year, which promises to be another wonderful year. Wish everyone a…
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May 26, 2025
We are pleased to share that the International Research Division of the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures (RCWBC) at Ryukoku University is going to host Dr. Kirill Solonin, a renowned expert in Tangut Buddhism and languages, who will…

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