VHS LECTURE SERIES

Cultural encounters along the Silk Roads: Insights into the spread of Buddhism

As part of the lecture series “Religions from Aha to Zen”, which CERES is organizing in cooperation with the Volkshochschule …

THE STORY CONTINUES...

The open access series BuddhistRoad Paper will be continued

After a successful finish of the BuddhistRoad project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and based at the Center …

BUDDHISM AS A LINK

Keynote lecture by Carmen Meinert at conference in Vienna

Carmen Meinert from CERES gave a keynote lecture at the conference “Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern …

RESEARCH

New opportunity for the traditional subject of Old Uyghur studies

Yukiyo Kasai (CERES) is accepted into the DFG's Heisenberg Program

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Exciting insights for young researchers on Boys' Day 2024 with CERES

CERES took part in Boys' Day 2024 with a workshop on the topic of Religious Scientists for a Day: Us …

NEW PUBLICATION

Buddhism in Central Asia III: Third conference volume of the BuddhistRoad project published

The third conference volume of the ERC funded project BuddhistRoad has been published. The volume entitled “Buddhism in Central Asia …

In Memoriam: Diego Loukota

We just received the very sad news that Diego Loukota, our dear friend, colleague, and cooperation partner in the BuddhistRoad …

Success of the BuddhistRoad Project: Establishment of new research field of Central Asian Buddhism

After six and a half years of fruitful project work, the ERC-funded project BuddhistRoad has officially come to an end. …

Research Tools of the BuddhistRoad Project go online

We are delighted to announce that Research Tools of the BuddhistRoad Project are now available online on our website. Explore …

From an oasis in the middle of the Taklamakan desert to Bochum

Neil Schmid has already lived in big cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo, and most recently in the …