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Analysing homa Rituals - Chinese Researcher visits BuddhistRoad Team

The BuddhistRoad team invited the Chinese researcher Hou Haoran from Leipzig University to present his research on the religious aspects …

The Sogdians and the Buddhism - Japanese Researcher presents his Findings

Japanese researcher Yutaka Yoshida is one of the few international experts of Sogdian and currently visiting the Center for Religious …

New Publication: Buddhist Networks in East Asia

Just days ago, the latest volume of the "Dynamics in the History of Religions" (Brill) was published under the title …

Japanese Expert on Sogdians visits BuddhistRoad Project

Rarely known in the Western canon of historiography, Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia in what is …

Silk Roads in a Westphalian Barn: Start-Up Conference of BuddhistRoad

Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s International Convention Center is situated in a rustic Old-Westphalian barnyard. It is at this location, where the international …

Announcing the BuddhistRoad's Start-up Conference

On May 23rd–25th, 2018, the ERC founded research project BuddhistRoad is going to hold its start-up conference on Establishing of …

Verleihung in Bamberg: Humboldt-Preis für Jan-Ullrich Sobisch

Zweifellos war Alexander von Humboldt eine der archetypischen Forschergestalten in der Übergangszeit zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik, der die Wissenschaften entschieden …

Fruitful Exchange between Research and Museum established

Earlier this month, a team of the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) visited Museum Rietberg in Zurich for a first …

Buddhism in the Museum: Finding Innovative Ways for Exhibitions

The art of showing religions in museums is one of its own. Is it enough to exhibit mere historical artefacts …

Job Offer: Two Student Assistants for BuddhistRoad

The EU funded research project BuddhistRoad invites applications for the position of two student assistants (studentische Hilfskraft, SHK) …

New ERC-Project launched: BuddhistRoad starts Research

On 1st of August 2017, a new research project starts at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES). For the next …

On the Buddhist Road: CERES Researcher receives ERC Grant

The European Research Council finances the research project of religious studies scholar Carmen Meinert with two million euros. Her team …