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The Institute of Buddhist Studies will be hosting the Western Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion from March 23-25, 2018. The co-chairs of the Western Region’s Buddhist Studies unit are encouraging IBS and GTU students, faculty, and community […]

Annual memorial service to remember those who have gone before and helped to create, sustain, and grow IBS. More information is forthcoming.

This past June, three members of the IBS community participated in the 2017 Annual Conference of the Association of Professional Chaplains. Rev. Dr. Daijaku Kinst, the Noboru and Yaeko Hanyu Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, facilitated […]

​The overall theme for the 2018 Conference is Religion and Kindness. We are using this idea in its broadest terms; sometimes admiring, sometimes damning, and may be some of the times authoritative, while in all other times passionate. We are […]

New and returning students are encouraged to attend the IBS Fall 2017 student orientation. Please contact our Registrar’s Office for more details.

On August 18 – 20, 2017,  the Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS) and the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) Center for Buddhist Education (CBE) will present the annual Summer Pacific Seminar – 21st Century at the Jodo Shinshu Center in Berkeley, CA.  […]

The Institute of Buddhist Studies has been recognized as a Candidate for Accreditation by WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). WSCUC is the regional accrediting agency for colleges and universities in California and Hawai’i. Having achieved Candidacy is a […]

Mass Meditation: Practices and Discourses in Contemporary Global Buddhisms October 6, 2017—Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California This conference will focus on the phenomenon of mass meditation (e.g., lay meditation practices, mindfulness, secularization) in contemporary global Buddhism. Of particular focus […]

Editor’s note: the following is text of the 2017 Commencement Address by IBS alum Chenxing Han, delivered during the graduation ceremony on Friday May, 19, 2017. We would very much like to thank Ms. Han for delivering the address and […]

Five Institute of Buddhist Studies’ students were presented with their Masters Degree at Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 19, 2016 in Berkeley, CA. Rev. Dr. David Matsumoto, Provost and Vice President, Academic Affairs, IBS chaired the event. Bishop Kodo Umezu, […]

From the AAR’s Reading Religions: Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée Richard K. Payne, Michael Witzel Oxford Ritual Studies, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, November 2015. Link to Publisher’s Website. Review This edited volume contains […]

On Friday, April 14, nearly fifty Buddhist scholars, teachers, and activists convened at the Jodo Shinshu Center for a much-anticipated IBS symposium on “Interdependence/Intersectionality: Marginalization, Oppression, and American Buddhism,” to discuss issues of marginalization and oppression related to race, gender, […]

We are pleased to announce that the Institute of Buddhist Studies has received permission from the editors, Ian Astley and Henrik Sørensen, to be the electronic archive for the first nine issues of Studies in Central and East Asian Religions. […]

Mass Meditation: Practices and Discourses in Contemporary Global Buddhisms October 6, 2017—Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California This conference will focus on the phenomenon of mass meditation (e.g., lay meditation practices, mindfulness, secularization) in contemporary global Buddhism. Of particular focus […]

The Alumni Association of the Institute of Buddhist Studies is holding the first ever graduate reception on Thursday, May 18, 2017 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Jodo Shinshu Center. This reception will be an occasion to celebrate […]

Please join us in celebrating our 2017 graduating students, Friday, May 19, from 10:30 a.m. Please contact our office for more information.

The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and […]

This symposium brings together Buddhist scholars, teachers, and activists to discuss issues of marginalization and oppression related to race, gender, and sexuality both inside and outside American Buddhist communities both historically and at the present. Speakers will discuss such topics […]

Details are forthcoming. The 2017 Ryukoku Lecture will be delivered on the afternoons of March 20 and 22. Prof. Mazumi Mitani will discuss “The Otani Kozui Expeditions and their Impact on Buddhist Studies”

Details are forthcoming. The 2017 Ryukoku Lecture will be delivered on the afternoons of March 20 and 22. Prof. Mazumi Mitani will discuss “The Otani Kozui Expeditions and their Impact on Buddhist Studies”