RESEARCH STRENGTHS

Research strengths in the department of the Buddhist Studies Program are:

• Method in the study of Indian and Buddhist thought
• Early Buddhist literature, particularly of the ‘Mainstream’ schools, preserved in Pali, Gandhari, Prakrit, Buddhist Sanskrit and Chinese
• Recent discoveries of Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Buddhism in South and South-east Asia, with a special interest in ancient Gandhara
• Buddhist Sanskrit and the Middle Indo-Aryan languages, particularly Pali and Gandhari
• Chan/Zen Buddhism
• Chinese Religions and Cultural Studies
• Religion and the Environment
• Chinese Buddhist Art and Archaeology