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April 6, 2023
Congratulations!
University of Arizona Center for Buddhist Studies director and Department of East Asian Studies professor Jiang Wu is one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists awarded a "2023 Guggenheim Fellowship."
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April 2, 2023
Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,
Please join us on Thursday, April 13 at 4 pm (Arizona Time) in the Copper Room at the Student Union for the next lecture of the Pu Yin Lecture Series! A reception will follow. …
March 31, 2023
Welcome to the Center for Buddhist Studies Community Wellness Digest!
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March 29, 2023
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March 29, 2023
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March 20, 2023
Our center will sponsor the "International Conference on Amulet Cultures in Thailand" that takes place in Bangkok on June 10-11, 2023. This is the first conference in English devoted to Thai amulet scholarship.
The deadline for submitting paper…
March 15, 2023
Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,
Please join us on Monday, March 27 at 4 pm (Arizona Time) in the Copper Room at the Student Union for the next lecture of the Ōbaku Ingen/Lingyin Lecture Series! This is a…
Our faculty Prof. Takashi Miura was selected as a member of Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton
March 8, 2023
Takashi Miura was selected as a member of Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton from Jan. 2022 to July 2022. He is working on a monograph on the history of deified protest martyrs in early modern Japan (1600–1868). This project highlights the…
March 8, 2023
Singing the Goddess into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad (SUNY 2022) by Prof. Caleb Simmons examines Chamundi of the Hill, a collection of songs that tells the stories of the gods…
March 2, 2023
***Please note it is on Arizona time. Arizona will not be affected by the daylight saving time change on Sunday.
Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,
Please join us on Monday, March 13 at 5 pm (Arizona Time) for the…
Feb. 24, 2023
Our faculty Prof. Albert Welter published an edited volume entitled The Role of Hangzhou in the Spread of East Asian Buddhism as the guest editor in a special issue of the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture (…
Feb. 24, 2023
Buddhist Architecture in America Building for Enlightenment (Routledge 2023) by Prof. Robert Gordon is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities.…