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Dr. John Johnston, the Senior Fellow at the Center for Buddhist Studies, is doing fieldwork on visual arts research in Ōbaku Temple (Manpukuji) in Uji, Japan now. He shared on his Instagram a post about a special annual ritual on the birth date…

This spring, University of Arizona Master of Science in Urban Planning student Glenn Ingram, recent Master of Landscape Architecture graduate Mattea Wallace and Associate Professor Philip Stoker, working with UArizona East Asian Studies Professor…

Originally written by Jakrasurak Chantaravong in 2008 and expanded, updated and translated by Chanon Adsanatham in 2020, The Vessel of Light: A Guide to Wisdom-Enhancing Architecture and Objects of Siri Wattana Wisut Forest Monastery of Princess…

[Book title] Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra Columbia University Press, October 2022 Abstract: In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually…

[IMPORTANT UPDATE: The in-person location and time of Dr. Graham’s lecture have been changed to 2:30 pm, Silver and Sage Room, Old Main. The zoom link remains the same. Please note that the updated information is in red font in the updated…

[IMPORTANT UPDATE: The location of Dr. Dachille’s lecture has been changed to Kachina Lounge, Student Union.]   Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,   Please join us on October 31st at 4 pm in Kachina…

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 of an interview with Stephen Batchelor, a…

Announcement/Call for Contributors The Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture   The Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture, part of the Hangzhou Buddhist Culture Project at the University of Arizona, is contracted with Brill for…

We are pleased to release the sixteenth issue of a monthly Chinese Buddhist Canon Research Newsletter in September 2022. The purpose of this newsletter is to present academic information about the research,…

Dr. Linjiao Zeng earned her Ph.D. degree this spring 2022 from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of English of the College of Foreign Languages at Shandong University,…

The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) 2022 Best Poster Award was presented to an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the University of Arizona whose project is called “Regional Religious Systems in Hangzhou China: Illustrating the…

The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference and Joint Meetings successfully concluded three days of lectures and presentations at the University of Arizona in Tucson from September 16-18, 2022. A joint venture of the University of…