http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist The UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies trains scholars and educates members of the broader community about Buddhist religion and culture in all of their diversity. en-us Three part video series featuring Professor Robert Buswell, director of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=125335 Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:04:03 PDT List of Buddhist Studies and related courses for Summer 2012. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=125173 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:19:07 PDT List of Buddhist Studies and related courses for Spring quarter 2012. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=125161 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:41:28 PDT The symposium, originally set to feature the Dalai Lama, brought researchers from UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior together with eminent Buddhist scholars for a two-hour conversation about their distinctive yet complementary understandings of compassion, creativity, mental flexibility and attention, as well as the role mindfulness meditation may play in cultivating these qualities. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=121160 Tue, 10 May 2011 13:50:51 PDT His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was unable to attend this May 2, 2011, symposium as planned, due to ill health. In his stead, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, a principal English translator for His Holiness and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Cambridge University) and Robert Thurman, Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, joined the discussion with four UCLA neuroscientists. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=121102 Wed, 4 May 2011 15:29:28 PDT Two guest scholars agreed to fill in for His Holiness at the last minute. The panel also featured three UCLA neuroscientists, who presented on major findings in their field, reports The Daily Bruin. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=121058 Tue, 3 May 2011 09:55:30 PDT His Holiness the Dalai Lama is unable to travel due to ill health. His scheduled appearances at UCLA on Monday, May 2 have been canceled. The 1:30 symposium will go ahead without the Dalai Lama's participation. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=121036 Sun, 1 May 2011 18:12:49 PDT Beginning with a Thursday talk by Venerable Thubten Wangchen, the director of Tibet House, Barcelona, a series of special events will be held in honor of His Holiness's visit. Both of the May 2 events featuring the Dalai Lama will be made available for live viewing online. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=120972 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:53:18 PDT The Dalai Lama will come to campus on May 2, 2011, for two public events sponsored by the UCLA International Insitute and the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies. One of them, a dialogue between His Holiness and UCLA neuroscientists, will in many ways fulfill the journey that a UCLA expert in Tibetan Buddhism, meditation and medicine began half a century ago. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=120024 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:25:18 PDT Buswell, distinguished professor of Buddhist studies and director of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies, is quoted today in a Reuters article about Burmese Buddhist monks living in the U.S. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=115303 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:15:45 PDT Robert Buswell, who once dropped out of college to become a monk in Asia, directs the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=111771 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:23:36 PDT Podcast from the US-China Business Law Conference at UCLA held on October 24, 2008. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=111374 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:31:11 PDT In his Faculty Research Lecture on March 10, Gregory Schopen hopes to illuminate a little-known aspect of Buddhism: the fact that it was one of the earliest social organizations in India to develop what might be called a corporation. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=105374 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:39:14 PDT Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan seeks to explain why some Buddhists and some scientists have been so eager, for a century and a half, to assert the compatibility of two very different ways of seeking knowledge. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=105292 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:51:32 PDT Thirteen Korean historical, religious, and philosophical classics will be introduced to English readers under a translation project coordinated by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies. http://128.97.165.17/buddhist/article.asp?parentid=97919 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:56:06 PDT