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

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Jiang Yixiu joins Buddhist Studies as the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Postdoctoral Fellow for 2024-26. She specializes in Indian Mahāyāna scriptures with a focus on the early development of the notion of the bodhisattva path.
THE EVANS-WENTZ LECTURESHIP  The 1500 exquisite relief carvings on the great early ninth-century monument of Borobudur, in central Java, culminate in a major set of panels keyed to the early Mahāyāna text, the Gaṇḍavyūha, with its story of the layman Sudhana's quest for enlightenment.
Our Buddhist Studies graduate student, Julian Butterfield, receives one of the Ho Family Foundation Dissertational Fellowships in Buddhist Studies for 2024-25.

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