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Beijing and Kyoto: Two Former BuddhistRoad Team Members Continuing International Careers

In recent years, the BuddhistRoad project has become an international research hub on Buddhism in Central Asia. The research team …

Season's Greetings and Wishes for 2021

The year 2020 was extraordinary in many respects and will long be remembered. Given the global pandemic we have experienced …

Hybrid Guest Lecture on Dunhuang Manuscripts

Different times call for different methods. Guided by this principle BuddhistRoad team offers a hybrid guest lecture both on site …

Report on BuddhistRoad Invited Online Guest Lecture

Given the pandemic situation of our present times, the BuddhistRoad team changed an invited guest lecture to be held on …

Sheding Light on an Early Tradition within Tibetian Buddhism

It is more than two pounds heavy and contains more than 800 pages highly in-depth research work on Tibetian Buddhism. …

Wichtige Hinweise: RUB und CERES stellen auf Notbetrieb um

Während des Wochenendes wurden die Sonderregelungen für Studieren und Arbeiten an der RUB noch einmal drastisch verschärft: Auf Grund einer …

New Publication on Buddhism in Medieval Central Asia

Today, the 11th volume of the "Dynamics in the History of Religions" (Brill) was published. Entitled "Buddhism in Central Asia …

New Adventures on the Silk Roads - Public Lecture on Religious Transfer

How found Buddhism its way to China? How did the ethnic diversity influenced Central Asia? And how got the the …

Exploring Unstudied Tibetan Texts

Earlier this autumn the DFG-funded project Nyang ral’s Codification of rNying ma Literature and Ritual completed its research. Carmen Meinert, …

Second International Conference on Central Asian Buddhism in the Middle Ages

For the second time, the ERC-funded project BuddhistRoad invited internationally renowned scholars to Bochum for discussing the spread of Buddhism …