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The Venerable Dayi Shi and Dr. Jennifer Bright. (Photo courtesy of the Buddhist College of Canada)

DSR alumna Jennifer Bright named first Wutai Shan Venerable Dayi Professor

March 05, 2025

The inaugural Wutai Shan Venerable Dayi Professor in Buddhist Spiritual Care at Victoria University's Emmanuel College will be Dr. Jennifer Bright, an assistant professor of Buddhist spiritual care and counselling since 2023 and PhD alumna of the Department for the Study of Religion (2017).

The only existing photo of Niṣṭhānanda Vajrācārya, ca. 1920s Kathmandu

DSR professor unravelling the secrets of forbidden text written by Buddhist priest in Nepal

March 29, 2021

In 1914, a Buddhist priest worked in secret, translating a sacred text into a forbidden language, publishing it using a printing press smuggled into Kathmandu from India. From that act of defiance grew a century-long movement of resistance that finally saw the ban on the Newar language lifted in 2007.

Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History

December 08, 2020

Congratulations to DSR faculty Frances Garrett, and DSR graduate students Annie Heckman, and

DSR Hosts World’s Leading Buddhist Studies Conference

July 18, 2017

On August 20-25, 2017, the Department for the Study of Religion will be hosting the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), the largest and foremost academic gathering of Buddhist Studies scholars in the world, convened by DSR

Department students, faculty help launch Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library

April 06, 2020

The open-access Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library is now live – thanks to the efforts of an international network of scholars and volunteers, including members of our own Department of Religion.

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