Challenging the Orientalist exoticisation of mantras and their restriction to 'Eastern religions', Joseph L. Kimmel traces the understanding, practice, and purp…

Faced with political upheaval, aging support bases, rising regional security concerns, and harsh economic realities, how are influential religion-linked activists now seeking to shape Japan? What are ...

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My Review of Gokhale, _Pradeep P. Classical Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism and the Question of Caste_ . For much of the last hundred years, scholars of Buddhism (particularly in the West) have largely operate...

An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AAR’s Buddhism Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar will engage Dr. Stephanie Balkwill’s innovative and field-chang...

An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR Hosted by AAR’s Buddhism Program Unit As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar will engage Dr. Stephanie Balkwill’s innovative and field-chang...

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

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Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - “Inspired eloquence” the foremost skill in the Mahāyāna Buddhist preacher’s rhetorical toolkit.

The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

This essay explores the so-called dhutaṅgas (or dhutaguṇas), which are commonly understood as a group of optional ascetic practices for Buddhist monastics. Richard Gombrich expresses a widely accepted...

This essay explores the so-called dhutaṅgas (or dhutaguṇas), which are commonly understood as a group of optional ascetic practices for Buddhist monastics. Richard Gombrich expresses a widely accepted...