We invite students with an intermediate level of Pali and higher to join a group reading and study of Aggavaṃsa’s Saddanīti, the twelfth-century Pali grammar. This free online course will be led by Dr Aleix […]
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Transnational Network of Theravada Studies | Shan State Buddhist University | King’s College London This series is now ended. Many thanks to all speakers and attendees. Video recordings of the talks are available below. 25 […]
Join us during Vassa 2020/2564 for a series of online talks by various researchers. If you have some Pali, you are also welcome to attend a class taught by Aleix Ruiz-Falqués on Kaccāyana’s grammar. Transnational […]
This term the series will include a special focus on Buddhism among the Tai. All seminars will take place in Room VB3.01 at 5.00pm (refreshments 4.30pm in the 3rd floor kitchen), Theology and Religious Studies, Virginia Woolf […]
The British Library in London is displaying “Buddhist manuscripts and artworks in the largest exhibition of its kind ever held at the British Library” including “rare treasures from the Library’s collection including colourful scrolls, precious […]
Writing Workshop: 7-8 November 2019, 8:30am-5:00pm Conference: 9-10 November 2019, 8:30am-5:00pm Dhamma Hall, Shan State Buddhist University, Taunggyi, Myanmar Although Abhidhamma is sometimes described as Theravāda philosophy or metaphysics, it encompasses more than this: it systematises and […]
The Tea Circle Burma Studies group at Oxford University is building a bibliography of publications by female researchers and scholars from Burma/Myanmar with the aim of enriching the range and depth of research resources available […]
The American Council of Learned Societies is now taking applications for the five streams of funding for researchers from PhD students to senior scholars funded by Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. https://www.acls.org/Programs/The-Robert-H-N-Ho-Family-Foundation-Program-in-Buddhist-Studies
The University of Toronto with the support of the Roberts Library have set up a new website providing digitised versions of manuscripts and rare print editions from libraries in Myanmar. As of mid September 2019 […]
The Chester Beatty museum in Dublin, Ireland, is displaying examples from its excellent collection of Thai traditional manuscripts. The exhibition is on from 19 June 2019 to 26 January 2020. If you can’t make it […]