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Director Jiang Wu is invited to give a lecture on ”Preliminary Investigations on the Buddhist Sources about Modern East Asian Buddhism Preserved in Bunkaten at Manpukuji, Ōbakusan, Uji, Japan” in Department of Philosophy at Wuhan University in China…

Director Jiang Wu is invited to the International Conference “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward” held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on June 20-23, 2018. Director Wu will present a paper titled “On…

Director Jiang Wu will organize the ICSCC Visiting Scholar Workshop on “Buddhism and Methods: Ming-Qing Buddhism and Related Topics” on May 23, 2018 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. About twenty eminent scholars working on Ming-Qing…

The Center for Buddhist Studies recently acquired the original translation notes of Linji Yixuan's Record of Linji 臨濟錄 (Rinzai roku) in 15 binders and plans to digitize them. These were the notes prepared by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, …

Director Jiang Wu will be invited to give a lecture titled “Reinventing the Tripitaka: Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia” at Shanghai Normal University in Shanghai, China on May 20, 2018. For the details of the lecture…

It is a delight to announce that the Academic Advisory Board for the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona has been officially formed.   The board is composed of eight professors working on Buddhism, American religions, and…

Congratulations on Prof. Albert Welter's new Book: The Administration of Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song Seng shilue) published by Cambria Press in 2018. For the…

It is a delight to announce that the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture “Is Zen ‘Enlightenment’ Sudden or Gradual?” by Professor Robert E. Buswell, Jr., UCLA Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, for the inaugural ceremony of the…

It is a delight to announce that the keynote speech “Telling the Story of Chinese Buddhism” by Master Guangquan, Abbot of the world-renowned Lingyin Monastery in Hangzhou, China, for the inaugural ceremony of the Center for Buddhist Studies as well…

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…

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…

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…