Preaching Buddha from the British Museum
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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.

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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.
Congratulations to our alum, Adeana McNicholl, for her new book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2024)!

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