CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The Inaugural World Young Sinologists Summer Institute
CFA due March 15, 2026. June 29 – July 4, 2026, Yenching Academy of Peking University.Continue reading
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2026 Glorisun International Intensive Summer Program for Buddhist Studies with Peking University
CFA due April 15, 2026. Mount Kuaiji Advanced Institute for Buddhist Studies, Shaoxing, China, July 7–13, 2026.Continue reading
“Translation across the Four Directions”: Buddhist Translation Institutions, Canon Formation, and the Translingual Shaping of Asian Civilizations
CFP due April 15, 2026. Mount Kuaiji Advanced Institute of Buddhist Studies, Shaoxing, China.
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New Sources and Perspectives on Asian Civilizations
CFP due April 15, 2026. University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Dharma in Diaspora. Religiosity and Buddhist Practices in Italy’s Chinese Communities
March 5, 2026, 5 pm PST, with Ester Bianchi (University of Perugia). UC Berkeley.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Visual Paritta: word/image relationships in Burmese popular posters
March 9, 2026, 5 pm GMT, with Alexandra Green (The British Museum). University of Oxford, and online.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Lecture: How did the Buddha get into the marriage business? And what is so Special about Buddhist Women’s Marriage?
March 10, 2026, 5 pm GMT, with Alicia Turner (York University). University of Oxford.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: The Buddhist Cosmopolis: Connectivity, Diversity, and Materiality in Global Asia
March 11, 2026, 5 pm PST, with Tansen Sen (NYU Shanghai and NYU). In person Room 604, Asian Centre, UBC, and onlineContinue reading
Asian-Global Networks and Relationships in the Modern Spread of Buddhism
CFP due March 31, 2026. University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education, Rewley House, Oxford. June 30–July 1, 2026. Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Visions of Sublime Excess: Visionary Literature, Expansive Art, and Transformative Technologies in Ancient and Modern Buddhism
March 26, 2026, 4:30 pm EST, with David L. McMahan (Franklin & Marshall College). Princeton University, and online.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: Stranger things: supranormal Events in Modern Chinese Buddhist Autobiography
May 22, 2026, 5:30 pm BST, with Benjamin Brose (University of Michigan). SOAS University of London, and online.Continue reading
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
October 28, 2025, 5 pm PST, with Todd T. Lewis (Holy Cross College and Harvard University). In person Room 604, Asian Centre, UBC, and online.Continue reading
