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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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9
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
5:00 to 6:30pm
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Levinthal Hall
May
1
Thursday, May 1, 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
May
8
Thursday, May 8, 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
News
In the formative period of European Buddhology, Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhist texts played an important role in shaping a new discourse on Indian Buddhist history through Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s French translation of Faxian’s (法顯) travelogue (1836) and Stanislas Julien’s translation of Xuanzang’s (玄奘) biography (1856).
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.
