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Mar 20, 2023
Our center will sponsor the "International Conference on Amulet Cultures in Thailand" that takes place in Bangkok on June 10-11, 2023. This is the first conference in English devoted to Thai amulet scholarship.
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is April 5th, 2023.
Papers and panels should...
Mar 15, 2023
Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,
Please join us on Monday, March 27 at 4 pm (Arizona Time) in the Copper Room at the Student Union for the next lecture of the Ōbaku Ingen/Lingyin Lecture Series! This is a hybrid in-person/online event.
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Mar 8, 2023
Our faculty Prof. Takashi Miura was selected as a member of Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton
Takashi Miura was selected as a member of Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton from Jan. 2022 to July 2022. He is working on a monograph on the history of deified protest martyrs in early modern Japan (1600–1868). This project highlights the veneration of protest martyrs as a new religious...
Mar 8, 2023
Singing the Goddess into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad (SUNY 2022) by Prof. Caleb Simmons examines Chamundi of the Hill, a collection of songs that tells the stories of the gods and goddesses of the region around the city of Mysore in...
Mar 2, 2023
***Please note it is on Arizona time. Arizona will not be affected by the daylight saving time change on Sunday.
Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,
Please join us on Monday, March 13 at 5 pm (Arizona Time) for the next lecture of the Ōbaku Ingen/Lingyin Lecture Series! This is an...
Feb 24, 2023
Our faculty Prof. Albert Welter published an edited volume entitled The Role of Hangzhou in the Spread of East Asian Buddhism as the guest editor in a special issue of the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture (https://ijbtc.dongguk.edu/), Volume 32, Number 1. Academy of Buddhist...
Feb 24, 2023
Buddhist Architecture in America Building for Enlightenment (Routledge 2023) by Prof. Robert Gordon is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities. Exploring the arrival of Buddhist architecture in...
Feb 20, 2023
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The University of Arizona Department of East Asian Studies and the Center for Buddhist Studies invite applicants for qualified and interested graduate students to participate in a workshop on East Asian Buddhist Interactions: Focus on Greater Hangzhou Region connections with...
Feb 17, 2023
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Feb 15, 2023
Thanks to the generous support from Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou China, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes a Buddhist Studies Best Graduate Research Paper Award for graduate students who demonstrate superb research abilities through writing and publishing....