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May 4, 2022
The Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-2023 Lingyin Buddhist Studies Best Paper Award. Congratulations to Lu Zhang, Jeffrey Liu and Ziling Wan, three doctoral…
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May 4, 2022
The Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-2023 Lingyin Buddhist Studies Fellowship, Youteng Bi and Jeffrey Liu. An award ceremony will take place in conjunction with…
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April 27, 2022
[Reminder] Tea Ceremony, Ōbaku Ingen Lecture Series, and Online Art Exhibition
The year 2022 marks the 350th death anniversary of Zen Master Yinyuan Longqi (隱元隆琦 1592-1673, Ingen Ryūki in Japanese). The anniversary of an eminent master’s…
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April 25, 2022
Prof. Jiang Wu Received a Chiang Chingkuo Foundation Scholar’s Grant
Prof. Wu received a Chiang Chingkuo Foundation Scholar’s grant for the project “Scripture and Modernity: The Ōbaku Buddhist Canon in East Asia and the West” during the year 2021-22…
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April 21, 2022
Time: May 3rd (Tuesday), 16:00-16:30 (Arizona Time)
Location: Poetry Center, 1508 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ 85719
This event will be held in conjunction with the Launching Ceremony of the Obaku Ingen Online Art Exhibition and Lecture.
Links:…
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April 18, 2022
Dr. Jiang Wu recently published a research paper in Journal of Chan Buddhism on a significant Tang-dynasty lay Buddhist Pei Xiu, who was a follower of Huangbo Chan.
Pei Xiu 裴休 (791–864) was a literati follower of Buddhist teachers, among whom the…
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April 10, 2022
Launching Ceremony of the Online Art Exhibition
True Image: Celebrating the Legacy of Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki) and the Art of Ōbaku
May 3 (Tuesday), 2022
In-person/hybrid event
*Participants in the in-person event are expected to be free of…
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April 10, 2022
Obaku Ingen Lecture Series, No. 1Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan/Ingen in Global East Asia
by Dr. Jiang Wu
In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Just seven years later he established the monastery Manpukuji and founded a new tradition…
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April 6, 2022
April 3, 2022 is the Western calendar day when Master Yinyuan (Ingen), founder of the Japanese Obaku sect, passed away 350 years ago. A solemn ceremony has been held on that day at Manupukuji, Uji, Japan according to the Japanese Obaku tradition.…
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April 3, 2022
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM) building, located at 1231 N. Cherry Avenue (Corner of Cherry Avenue & Mabel Street), has been held successfully on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 12-1 p.m.…
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April 1, 2022
Dear friends and followers of UArizona Center for Buddhist Studies,
We thank you for your continuous support. As a token of appreciation and a gift of gratitude, we would like to present you a free E-Book: a collection of all issues of the Community…
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March 30, 2022
Dear Friends,
We are glad to announce that the 1st issue of the 2022 news digest for the UA Center for Buddhist Studies has been published. This news digest presents recent conferences, new research, focused initiatives, and various lecture series…