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Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition

Subject Fields

Asian History / Studies, Humanities, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology

The Research Center of the Italian Buddhist Union promotes an online three-year Program on the Buddhist art of debate, available in both English and Italian.

You can find the details about the program and all the relevant information at the following link: https://centrostudiubi.it/en/buddhist-studies/formazione/scuola-triennale-di-logica-e-dibattito/.

Karmic Historiography Forum on The Immanent Frame

Location

New Jersey, United States

Subject Fields

Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology

Visit The Immanent Frame to discover a new online forum, "Karmic Historiography” (https://tif.ssrc.org/category/exchanges/karmic-historiography/) coedited and curated by Jonathan C. Gold (Princeton University) and Suzanne van Geuns (Princeton University and TIF editorial assistant). This forum tests the utility and promise of karmic historiography as a methodology and an analytical perspective.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 3 August - 10 August

Subject Fields

Asian History / Studies, East Asian History / Studies, Intellectual History, Japanese History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 3 August to 10 August. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.

POSITION>Postdoctoral researcher in Tibetan Buddhism in Vienna

Location

Austria

Subject Fields

Asian History / Studies, Intellectual History, Philosophy

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please allow me to draw your attention to a postdoctoral research position on the history and/or philosophy of scholastic traditions in Tibetan Buddhism advertised at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Details:

https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68937/austrian-academy-sciences-postdoc-position-fmx

EVENT> European Regional Meeting at IABS Leipzig, Aug 14, 18–19.00

Announcement Type

Workshop

Subject Fields

Ancient History

Dear friends,

Naomi Appleton, Christopher Jones, and I have been working to establish a yearly European Regional IABS meeting in the hope of fostering more regular Buddhist Studies research and networking for IABS members within Europe (or those who wish to travel to Europe). We will hold an open meeting for organizing this endeavor at the IABS congress in Leipzig next week.

ANNOUNCEMENT> H-Buddhism at IABS Leipzig

Announcement Type

Conference

Subject Fields

Ancient History

Dear friends,

Three H-Buddhism editors will be attending the IABS congress in Leipzig next week: Matthew McMullen, Renee Ford, and myself. We have agreed to make ourselves available if anyone wishes to speak with us about H-Buddhism for any reason and will be wearing little, saffron H-Buddhism pins. Please feel free to say hi!

With our best wishes,

The H-Buddhism Editorial Team

CONFERENCE > IABS 2025 Congress Selective Live Streaming

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are delighted to invite you to participate online in the XXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), taking place at Leipzig University, Germany, from August 10th to 15th, 2025.

To make the research presented at this international congress accessible to a broader audience, selected panel presentations will be live-streamed free of charge. You will have full access to the presentations held in the following three rooms via the links below:

Hörsaal 3: https://www.urz.uni-leipzig.de/streams/livestream-hoersaal-3

Hörsaal 1: https://www.urz

CFP> Critical Review for Buddhist Studies (CRBS) vol. 38 (~ 2025. August. 31st)

Location

Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

Subject Fields

Religious Studies and Theology

CFP> Critical Review for Buddhist Studies (CRBS) vol. 38

Dear Colleagues,

Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies (GCBS) is calling for papers related to studies covering Indian, Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism, to be included in the publication Critical Review for Buddhist Studies (CRBS).

NEW BOOK> Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies: Engaging the Scholarship of Rupert Gethin

We are delighted to announce the publication of Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies: Engaging the Scholarship of Rupert Gethin (Bloomsbury). It’s edited by Paul Fuller and Indaka Weerasekera and honours and celebrates the work of Rupert Gethin.

Rupert has been an inspiration to many of us working in Buddhist Studies over a number of decades and the contributors to this volume suggests his wide and varied influence. The book is an opportunity to reflect on Rupert’s inspiring scholarship and to thank him for the friendship and generosity he has shown to many of us over the years.

We are

CFP> Panel on the Ethics of Armed Conflict for the 2026 IATS in Nepal

Announcement Type

Call for Papers

Subject Fields

Asian History / Studies

We invite you to join our panel on Violence and Human Dignity: Tibetan and Himalayan Perspectives on the Ethics of Armed Conflict for the 17th meeting of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in Nepal (August 2026). This panel explores how religious and ethical traditions in the Tibetan and Himalayan cultural spheres interface with the humanitarian principles at the core of international humanitarian law, or IHL.