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 …

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 …