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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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2024 newsletter
Monday
Reflections 2024: Annual Newsletter from the CBS We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Center for Buddhist Studies newsletter has been published. In the newsletter, we present news about recent lecture series and conferences, study abroad program…
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Jeffrey Ziling article
Thursday
Congrats to EAS PhD candidates Jeffrey Liu and Ziling Wan for publishing a peer reviewed article entitled "The Making of a Sacred Landscape: Visualizing Hangzhou Buddhist Culture via Geoparsing a Local Gazetteer the Xianchun Lin’an zhi 咸淳臨安志" in…
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John Cobb
March 12, 2024
We're excited to share information about an upcoming lecture by Dr. John B. Cobb Jr., titled "Farewell to Secularism and Move toward Earthism." Dr. Jiang Wu will serve as the moderator for this online event. The language of the talk will be English…

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