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 …

Experts on Buddhism visit Museum Rietberg, Zurich

Until end of March Zurich Museum Rietberg hosts the exhibition „Next Stop Nirvana“. A CERES delegation of Buddhism experts visited …

Innovative Ways in Museum Communication: The Buddhism ABC

Museum Rietberg in Zurich is currently hosting a special exhibition on the rites, teachings, values, stories, and legends of Buddhism. …

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 …