Postgraduate Research in Buddhist Studies
Buddhist Studies is a unique interdisciplinary program offering postgraduate research degrees that integrate training in use of primary-source language materials and critical methodologies appropriate to topics in Buddhist history, philosophy, textual studies, and cultural studies. Postgraduate research topics may include studies of Buddhism in Asia as well as in contemporary globalised contexts. Faculty research strengths include:
- 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
Buddhist Studies postgraduate research programs
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- Doctor of Philosophy (Buddhist Studies)
- Master of Philosophy (Buddhist Studies)
- Master of Arts (Research) (Buddhist Studies)
Contacts
Chair of Department
| Mark Allon | |
| Phone Number | +61 2 9351 3891 |
| mark.allon@sydney.edu.au | |
| Web | Staff Page |
| Address |  Room S348A20 - John Woolley The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia |
Postgraduate Research Coordinator
| Mark Allon | |
| Phone Number | +61 2 9351 3891 |
| mark.allon@sydney.edu.au | |
| Web | Staff Page |
| Address | Room S348 A20 - John Woolley The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia |