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We are honored to announce that our Director, Professor Jiang Wu, will be recognized as a Regents Professor at the Luminaries Outstanding Faculty Awards on October 16, 2025! In a recent interview, he reflected on what this award means to him…

The Center for Buddhist Studies is pleased to sponsor Midautumn Wellness event at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center. The event will feature a special talk and Asian dinner menu by Dr. Andrew Weil, a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine…

Description:The Center for Buddhist Studies at the College of Humanities, in collaboration with the Shatz Family Foundation, is thrilled to launch a new and exciting initiative aimed at fostering well-being through the integration of body, mind and…

🎉 Congratulations to Yuyu Zhang! 🎉Our Center’s junior fellow and PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies, Yuyu Zhang, has been named one of the three inaugural recipients of the College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence!The…

[A major new book series of interdisciplinary, transregional publications in Buddhist Studies has just been launched by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)]The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is launching Global Buddhism, a…

[New Book Publication] Shaolin Kung Fu: Tradition, Modernity, and Chan Buddhism has been published by Routledge (London, 2025; eBook: March 20, 2025), authored by Marta Nešković. This book investigates contemporary Shaolin Kung Fu,…

Congratulations to Dr. John Johnston, our Center’s Senior Fellow since 2021, on his new appointment as Assistant Professor in the College of Religious Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand. In this role, he will focus on Buddhist Studies,…

Nan Ouyang, a PhD alumna of the University of Arizona (Department of East Asian Studies and Center for Buddhist Studies), will publish her first book, Constructing the Divine Abode of Dizang Bodhisattva: Mount Jiuhua in Late Imperial China (14th to…

Welcome to the start of a new academic year at the University of Arizona! We are delighted to welcome our new and returning students, and our faculty and staff to the new academic year, which promises to be another wonderful year. Wish everyone a…

We are pleased to share that the International Research Division of the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures (RCWBC) at Ryukoku University is going to host Dr. Kirill Solonin, a renowned expert in Tangut Buddhism and languages, who will…

Our Rinzai roku (Linji lu 临济录) reading group has successfully concluded the weekly reading sessions during the spring semester. Team members read the text, compiled a bibliography, and examined 16 binders of scans of the translation notes. …

Our Saturday event with Roshi Norman Fischer at the Andrew Weil Center Cantor Building was a huge success. More than a hundred people joined the retreat and enjoyed the guided meditation, poetry reading and dharma talk.