Innovative Research
Through institutional publications, faculty scholarship, and collaborative research programs, IBS promotes engagement with the Buddhist tradition and Buddhist studies while contributing to the public good.
The Public Theologies of Technology and Presence program gathers and funds a cohort of leading scholars of religion, theologians, and journalists for their work addressing a pressing concern of contemporary life: The ways in which technologies reshape human relationships and alter how people are or are not “present” with each other. The three-year program launched in 2018 and is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Published annually, with generous support from BDK America, the Pacific World is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal of research on contemporary issues—intellectual, academic, and social—in Buddhism writ large.
Through our partnership with the University of Hawai’i Press, IBS produces two academic book series in Pure Land Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies. View title lists here or visit the Press’ complete catalog online.
IBS and its partners support a number of ongoing research projects and publications.
With more than half a century of research and educational programs, IBS has supported numerous academic projects, lecture series, and publications, many of which are archived here on our website.