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The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona is honored to announce the receipt of a $5,000 Digitization Project Grant from Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK) America for 2025.​ This generous grant supports our ongoing initiative, the "…

The Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies are pleased to announce that Xinrui Zeng is one of the two recipients of the 2025-2026 Khyentse Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. An award ceremony will take place in conjunction…

[Khyentse Foundation Fellowships Awarded to Yuyu Zhang] The Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies are pleased to announce that Yuyu Zhang is one of the two recipients of the 2025-2026 Khyentse Foundation Doctoral…

The Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies are pleased to announce that Ziling Wan is a recipient of the 2024–2025 Khyentse Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. In addition to this honor, she has also received three other…

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:…