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March 17, 2022
Dorrance Dean A-P Durand and Center for Buddhist Studies Director Jiang Wu congratulate Andrew Weil, M.D. on the official groundbreaking for the new Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine facility! The Center for Buddhist Studies is excited for…
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March 14, 2022
Book title: The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China
Edited by Jiang Wu
Routledge, April 2022
Book description:
The rise of Spatial Humanities has spurred a digital revolution in the field of Chinese studies, especially in the…
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March 8, 2022
On February 25, 2022, the Japanese Imperial Household Agency bestowed upon Yinyuan Longqi (隱元隆琦 1592-1673, Ingen Ryūki in Japanese), the founder of the Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism, a new title “Venerable Master Gento” (Gento Daishi 厳統大師) with the…
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March 4, 2022
Topic: KUNG FU, SHAOLIN TEMPLE AND CHAN BUDDHISM IN CHINA AND THE WORLD
Talk discription:
Chan Buddhism was the historical origin of an international spiritual and cultural movement popular in pre-modern East Asia and in the post-WWII Western…
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March 2, 2022
We are pleased to release the eleventh issue of a monthly Chinese Buddhist Canon Research Newsletter in February 2022. The purpose of this newsletter is to present academic information about the research, collation, collection, and digitalization of…
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Feb. 20, 2022
Map Title: 1950 Survey of Buddhist Temples in HangZhou, ZheJiang Province, China
Map Description:
This map is a visualization of all Buddhist temples in Hangzhou according to a 1950 survey from the BGIS dataset, and the basemap is adapted from…
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Feb. 14, 2022
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Feb. 9, 2022
[Opening Ceremony] Symposium on Jiangnan Buddhist Traditions in Context Available on YouTube
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYCcO6CoNSw
Speakers:
Jiang Wu, Director, Center for Buddhist Studies
Ken McAllister, Associate Dean, The…
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Feb. 8, 2022
Thanks to the generous support from Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou China, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes a Buddhist Studies Best Graduate Research Paper Award for graduate students who demonstrate superb…
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Feb. 7, 2022
UACBS Buddhist Studies Doctoral Fellowship
Thanks to the generous support of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China and the Khyentse Foundation, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona establishes several graduate fellowships to…
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Feb. 2, 2022
In recent years, along with the rise of Digital Humanities and database technologies, the field of Chinese studies also underwent a digital revolution with the applications of new electronic tools in different subfields. Despite the increased…
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Jan. 31, 2022
Reflections 2022: Annual Newsletter from the CBS
We are pleased to announce that the 2022 Center for Buddhist Studies newsletter has been published. In the newsletter, we present news about recent conferences, new research, focused initiatives,…