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April 12, 2018
Senior Fellow Prof. Chia-lin Pao Tao from the Center for Buddhist Studies, delivered an address on Qingming festival as well as promoting the establishment of the Center for Buddhist Studies among the Tucson communities at Tucson Chinese Cultural…
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April 10, 2018
To celebrate the establishment of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona in 2017, the official inaugural ceremony was successfully held at the Poetry Center on March 28, 2018. Center Director Jiang Wu, Acting Provost Jeff…
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April 4, 2018
The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona would like to thank for the donation of Professor Tu Cheng-min’s 杜正民 (known as Aming Tu) posthumous book Healing Through Hearing the Dharma: 10 Lessons on Life and Death as Taught by the…
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April 3, 2018
Prof. Robert A.F. Thurman will give a lecture "Buddhist Ethics and the World Crisis" sponsored by the Center for Buddhist Studies. Prof. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.  The event…
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April 2, 2018
UA Alumni Association published an article to introduce the establishment of the Center for Buddhist Studies. It says, “The University of Arizona’s new Center for Buddhist Studies in the College of Humanities will create a research hub to explore…
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March 26, 2018
Creating the World of Chan/ Sŏn /Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia March 28-31, University of Arizona “禅的世界”国际研讨会 禅的世界的创建: 中国禅宗及其传播                                                    亚利桑那大学 2018年3月28日-31日     Sponsors…
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March 22, 2018
Khyentse Foundation Lecture # 2 Speaker: Professor Robert E. Buswell, Jr. (University of California, Los Angeles –– UCLA) Title: “Is Zen “Enlightenment” Sudden or Gradual?: Insights from the Korean Buddhist Tradition” Time: 6:00-7:30 pm, Friday,…
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March 21, 2018
Master Shi Guangquan, Abbot of the world-renowned Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China, will give a lecture during the inaugural ceremony, “Telling the Story of Chinese Buddhism: Promoting exchange and mutual learning among civilizations.” Please join…
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March 21, 2018
You are cordially invited to the inaugural ceremony for the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona 5 PM Wednesday, March 28, 2018 UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ, 85721 FREE parking is available on surface lots…
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March 12, 2018
Please join us for the following talk in the Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series. Buddhism as a Regional Religious SystemProf. Karl Ryavec, Professor of World Heritage at the University of California, Merced Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 16:00 The…
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March 7, 2018
UA Center for Buddhist Studies Co-sponsored "A Conversation with bell hooks: Feminism, Buddhism, and Liberation." Esteemed scholar and author bell hooks will engage in a conversation with Professor Rae Erin Dachille, one of the core faculties in the…
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March 2, 2018
Jinhui Wu, doctoral student of the Department of East Asian Studies, was recently awarded the 2017-2018 College of Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant at the University of Arizona. Jinhui works on literature and religion in late imperial…