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We are thrilled to announce that our Center’s Director, Dr. Jiang Wu, has been named a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona! As the founding director of the Center for Buddhist Studies, Dr. Wu has significantly advanced the study of…

We are pleased to share that Dr. Dachille will be offering her graduate course, Theories and Methods of Religious Studies, again next semester, Fall 2025. This course provides essential training for engagement with the larger field of religious…

Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies, We warmly welcome you to join us for our lecture, From Global Ethics to Multi-Planetary Ethics: A Perspective of Spiritual Humanism, at 3 pm, on April 3 in N604, ENR2 Building. This FREE in-…

Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies, We invite you to join us for a Buddhist studies talk, Chan Vitality in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Study Focusing on Chan Training and Practices, featuring Ven. Chongjian. This in-person…

Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies, We warmly welcome you to join us for an insightful lecture, Mindfulness 2.0: Performing Spiritual Healing in an AI Era, featuring distinguished scholars in the fields of Buddhism, neuroscience,…

Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies, We are pleased to invite you to an engaging lecture, When Buddhism Meets AI, featuring Venerable Dazhao on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:30 PM (Arizona Time) at …

Thanks to the generous support of the Khyentse Foundation, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes graduate fellowships to support two or more qualified Ph.D. students (not visiting or affiliated students), to…

We are pleased to share that our director, Dr. Jiang Wu, recently delivered a lecture at The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University on February 6, 2025, and the recording is now available on YouTube. Watch here:…

The 34th issue provides readers with book and research news, studies in Buddhist manuscripts in Dunhuang, auctions, conferences, research notes on the Qisha Canon, and the Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Rare Books from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties…

Congrats to EAS (Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona) PhD student Yuyu Zhang for publishing a peer reviewed article entitled "Illusory Substances: Figure Painting and Eulogy in Chan Texts and Monasteries during the Song…

Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies, Great news! Our StoryMap, Regional Religious Systems in Hangzhou, China: Illustrating the Confluence of Buddhist Geography and Culture (618–2022) (Explore the StoryMap), has been selected as…

We appreciate everyone who stopped by our booth at the 2025 East Asia Language and Cultural Festival! This year, we had the special opportunity to showcase Buddhist scripture woodblocks from the special collection of our center’s director, along…