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The University of Arizona Center for Buddhist Studies is pleased to announce: Lingyin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series Fall 2020 Schedule As we continue to care for our community and stay at home, UACBS is moving many activities online so that we can…

The University of Arizona offers a wide range of courses in Buddhist Studies and related subjects for undergraduates and graduate students. Listed below are the courses being offered in fall 2020. For more information, please contact the Center for…

Lu Zhang is Ph. D candidate from the Department of East Asian Studies. Her dissertation project, titled “Presenting the Buddha: The ’Sages and Worthies as Incarnations (of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas)’ in Chan Historiographies in Song China,” was…

We are excited to announce the launch of our strategic plan, designed to promote academic research on the Buddhist tradition and its related religious, intellectual, social, cultural, and artistic aspects in all geographical regions…

Thanks to the generous support of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes Lingyin Buddhist Studies Best Graduate Research Paper Award. The award is for graduate students who…

Linjiao Zeng, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, wins the 2020 Khyentse Foundation Student Award. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of English of the College of Foreign Languages at…

The Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies have been selected by the Khyentse Foundation Academic Development Committee for their Doctoral Student Financial Support program. The award will be for 4 years, $25,000…

Thanks to the generous support of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes two graduate studies fellowships, each worth $10,000, to support two qualified Ph.D. students, to complete…

Thanks to the generous support of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes two graduate studies fellowships, each worth $10,000, to support two qualified Ph.D. students, to complete…

The Center for Buddhist Studies is glad to post an interview that we conducted with Professor Raoul Birnbaum, Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research has concentrated on three great themes in the history of Chinese…

The Center for Buddhist Studies is glad to post an interview that we conducted with Professor Raoul Birnbaum, Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research has concentrated on three great themes in the history of Chinese…

Jinhui Wu is doctoral candidate and research associate of the Department of East Asian Studies. Her proposal, titled: “Chinese Buddhist Cosmology and Cosmography in Early Modern China— Translation of the Fajie anli tu,” submitted to…