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The University of Arizona offers multiple courses on Buddhist Studies for undergraduate and graduate students in 2018 fall.  Select the courses on Buddhism if you are interested.                …

Dr. Waifang Xu, a professor in the School of Urban Culture at South China Normal University, joined the Center for Buddhist Studies as a visiting scholar in the academic year 2018 to 2019. Prof. Xu received his PhD degree of Chinese classical…

Full/Associate/Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies Chinese or Asian Philosophies and Religions (Reference No.:FAH/RS/FAAP/08/2018) Academic Position       The University of Macau (UM) is the…

Dr. Jiang Wu, Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona, won the inaugural Tianzhu Book Prize for Excellence in Chan Studies for his book "Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity…

A new course on religious theories and methods provided by Dr. Rae Dachille is recommended for Buddhist studies graduate students in fall 2018. The following is the course information: RELI 550: Graduate Readings in Theories and Methods for the…

Director Jiang Wu is invited to give a lecture on ”Preliminary Investigations on the Buddhist Sources about Modern East Asian Buddhism Preserved in Bunkaten at Manpukuji, Ōbakusan, Uji, Japan” in Department of Philosophy at Wuhan University in China…

Director Jiang Wu is invited to the International Conference “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward” held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on June 20-23, 2018. Director Wu will present a paper titled “On…

Director Jiang Wu will organize the ICSCC Visiting Scholar Workshop on “Buddhism and Methods: Ming-Qing Buddhism and Related Topics” on May 23, 2018 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. About twenty eminent scholars working on Ming-Qing…

The Center for Buddhist Studies recently acquired the original translation notes of Linji Yixuan's Record of Linji 臨濟錄 (Rinzai roku) in 15 binders and plans to digitize them. These were the notes prepared by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, …

Director Jiang Wu will be invited to give a lecture titled “Reinventing the Tripitaka: Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia” at Shanghai Normal University in Shanghai, China on May 20, 2018. For the details of the lecture…

It is a delight to announce that the Academic Advisory Board for the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona has been officially formed.   The board is composed of eight professors working on Buddhism, American religions, and…

Congratulations on Prof. Albert Welter's new Book: The Administration of Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song Seng shilue) published by Cambria Press in 2018. For the…