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Tang dynasty image of the teaching Buddha. Digital image: © The Trustees of the British Museum
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford (HCBSS) serves to support and develop the university’s resources for Buddhist Studies in academic programs, collaborative research, scholarly communication, and public outreach.
Upcoming Events
February
13
Thursday, February 13, 2025
5:00 to 6:30pm
East Asian Library
Lathrop Library, 518 Memorial Way 2nd Floor, Stanford
Room 224
Lathrop Library, 518 Memorial Way 2nd Floor, Stanford
Room 224
March
12
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
5:00 to 6:30pm
East Asian Library
Lathrop Library, 518 Memorial Way 2nd Floor, Stanford
Room 224
Lathrop Library, 518 Memorial Way 2nd Floor, Stanford
Room 224
April
9
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
5:00 to 6:30pm
Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Levinthal Hall
News
From the early 1980s until now – with a brief pause during the recent quasi-democratic period – Myanmar's seniormost committee of Buddhist monks has organised trials to try monks, nun(!) and lay people of non-vinaya and non-dharma.
Buddhakṣetrapariśodhana is a volume in honor of our Faculty Co-Director Paul M. Harrison, George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
Dr. Trent Walker, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Thai Professor of Theravada Buddhism in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford (HCBSS) from 2020 to 2023.
