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April 22, 2024
The recording of "Webinar Series 3 -- Mapping the Global East" is now available online on the YouTube channel of the Center on Religion and the Global East (CRGE) at Purdue University (https://youtu.be/vstQ14JeN14?feature=shared).
The Center on…
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April 18, 2024
We are pleased to share that the FROGBEAR (From The Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions) Database of Religious Sites in East Asia has been enriched with a collection of 35 records featuring plaques, couplets, and calligraphies from…
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April 15, 2024
Congrats to Youteng Bi for successfully defending her PhD dissertation titled “Reading as the Path Toward Enlightenment: Ouyi Zhixu’s Reorganization of the Buddhist Canon in the 17th Century China.”
Committee members:
Dr. Jiang Wu (Chair)
Dr.…
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April 12, 2024
Congrats to our EAS alumnus Dr. Tianyu Lei for publishing a peer reviewed article entitled "The making of a goddess: rethinking the history of the cult of Zhunti (Cundı̄) in China" in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2024, 1–23. https://doi.org…
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April 10, 2024
Congratulations to Youteng Bi, a PhD candidate from the Department of East Asian Studies, for winning a fellowship for graduate students by the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies for her dissertation project, titled “Reading As the Path Toward…
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April 3, 2024
CBS is pleased to co-sponsor the International Conference on the Jataka Tradition of Thailand to be held at PBIC, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand on June 1, 2024. Jataka are stories of the previous lives of the Buddha and are often…
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April 1, 2024
Dear Friends of the Center for Buddhist Studies,
Please join us on Tuesday, April 9 at 1 pm (Arizona Time) in S215 at Environment and Natural Resources 2 Building (ENR2) for the next lecture of the Ōbaku Ingen/Lingyin/Puyin Lecture Series! This is…
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March 29, 2024
We're excited to share information and details about the upcoming online conference “From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection.” The FROGBEAR project has now concluded field research and…
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March 22, 2024
The 28th issue presents readers with current academic information on books and research papers, Beijing Poly International Auction in Spring 2023 and the Song Edition of the Buddhist Canon.
Please visit cbs.arizona.edu/buddhist-canon-studies for a…
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March 21, 2024
We're excited to pass along information about the PNC 2024.
Main Theme: Green, Flow and Signal: Reconnecting Fragmented Communities
in the Age of Digital TransformationDates: August 29th-31st (Thursday-Saturday)Venue: Korea University, Seoul, South…
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March 20, 2024
Congratulations to Jeffrey Liu, a PhD candidate from the Department of East Asian Studies and a junior fellow at The Center for Buddhist Studies at The University of Arizona, for winning a fellowship for graduate students by the Chung-Hwa Institute…
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March 18, 2024
Reflections 2024: Annual Newsletter from the CBS
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Center for Buddhist Studies newsletter has been published. In the newsletter, we present news about recent lecture series and conferences, study abroad program…