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Aug. 7, 2017
Director Jiang Wu visited the Taiwan Sheng Yen Education Foundation in March 8, 2017 and made a presentation to its Board of Directors about the founding of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona. Dr. Wu presented the…
Aug. 7, 2017
The Center for Buddhist Studies has recently become an institutional partner of the Canadian SSHRC project “From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions” led by the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. The…
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Aug. 7, 2017
Director Jiang Wu was invited to attend the first international conference on Research of Modern East Asian Buddhist Texts at Fo Guang University on June 9, 2017 and presented a paper on the rare Buddhist texts preserved in the Bunkaden Archive at…
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Aug. 7, 2017
Director Jiang Wu joined a research tour organized by University of British Columbia and led by Prof. George Keyworth to examine the rare manuscript edition of the Japanese Buddhist canon in Kyoto from May 29 to June 8.
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Aug. 7, 2017
Between May 19 and 28, 2017, Prof. Albert Welter led a group of graduate students from Department of East Asian Studies to visit and study Buddhist monasteries in Hangzhou, China in collaboration with Zhejiang University and Lingyin Temple.
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Aug. 1, 2017
Director Jiang Wu attended the China-Canada-US Buddhist Forum at the University of Toronto from June 15-22, 2017 and presented a book as gift to the forum organizer Ven. Dayi, the abbot of Canadian Cham Shan Temple.