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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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Today we came together with family, friends, and colleagues to celebrate Dr. Julian Butterfield and Dr. Kedao Tong at the Department of Religious Studies Graduation Ceremony. Bravi!(Photo: Dr. Julian Butterfield on the left and Dr. Kedao Tong on the right)
Kedao Tong successfully defended his dissertation, "Animal Liberation as Human Endeavor: The Practice of Releasing Lives (fangsheng) in Chinese Religions, 400s–1940s. We congratulate him on this achievement!Picture on right: Richard Vinograd, Paul Harrison, Kedao Tong, Yiqun Zhou, John Kieschnick (left to right)
Miles Osgood talks to Pia Brancaccio about the Buddhist cave monasteries of Western Deccan, the inter-continental exchange of "Maritime Buddhism" along the "Cotton Road," and the competition between Buddhism and Shaivism at the end of the first millennium C.E.
