Mission:

As its long-term goal, this Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultures promotes innovative study of Buddhism and East Asian Cultures that crosses the boundaries between disciplines, countries, cultures, and religions. This global network significantly complements a $2.5-million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to support an international and interdisciplinary collaborative project called “From the Ground Up: East Asian Religions through Multi-Media Sources and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” The project aims to build a public digital collection of religious materials, including texts, artifacts, photographs, and recordings at UBC to enhance public and scholarly understanding of Buddhism and East Asian cultures.

 

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April 6, 2022

Guest Lecture: How did the Military Institutions Interact with Local Society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Case of Yuzhou Guard

Deng Qinping (University of Political Science and Law, China). 6:00 PM PDT, April 6, 2022. Online
March 22, 2022

Guest Lecture: Putting Together a Puzzle Without All the Pieces: Reading Damaged Buddhist Manuscripts

Speaker: Charles DiSimone (UGent) When: Thursday, April 21, 2022 Venue: Auditorium 1, Jan Broeckx, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent – Ghent University This lecture is part of […]
March 22, 2022

Guest Lecture: Did the Buddha Teach Consent?: Buddhist Ethics After Sexual Abuse in Contemporary North American Communities

Speakers: Amy Langenberg (Eckerd College) & Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida) When: Thursday, April 28, 2022 Venue: Auditorium 1, Jan Broeckx, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent […]
March 22, 2022

Guest Lecture: Three Paths, Two Buddhas and One Vehicle – Disentangling Indian Buddhist Literature

Speaker: Naomi Appleton (Edinburgh) & Chris Jones (Cambridge) When: Thursday, May 5, 2022 Venue: Auditorium 1, Jan Broeckx, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent – Ghent University This […]
March 22, 2022

Guest Lecture: Did Early Chinese Buddhists Understand their Scriptures? – What the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Commentaries Show Us

Speaker: Eric Greene (Yale University) When: Thursday, May 12, 2022 Venue: Auditorium 1, Jan Broeckx, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent – Ghent University This lecture is part […]
March 22, 2022

Lecture Series 2022: Permanent Training in Buddhist Studies (PTBS)

The Permanent Training in Buddhist Studies (PTBS) is an initiative of the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies (GCBS) in collaboration with the Department for Languages and […]
January 7, 2022

Second issue of Journal of Chan Buddhism

We are pleased to announce the release of the second issue of Journal of Chan Buddhism, edited by Jinhua Chen, George Keyworth, and Steffen Döll. The Journal […]
January 6, 2021

Special issue on Buddhism and Technology in the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

Open access. Guest editors: Marcus Bingenheimer, Christian Wittern, and Jinhua Chen.
January 6, 2021

First issue of Journal of Chan Buddhism

First issue of Journal of Chan Buddhism. Edited by Jinhua Chen, George Keyworth, and Steffen Döll.
March 13, 2019

Database of Chinese Medieval Texts

The Database of Chinese Medieval Texts (DMCT) is an on-going, open-ended, digitization of Chinese Medieval texts. This collaborative project is a linguistic research tool that shows mark ups and analytics on Late Medieval Chinese syntax and semantics. This database is open to the public.