Buddhist Studies

Stanford University

Grant period

2008 - Ongoing

Location

US

The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University has been endowed by the Foundation, along with two doctoral fellowships. The Center is dedicated to the promotion of both the academic study and public understanding of the Buddhist tradition, nurturing the steady growth of Buddhist studies at the university while exposing the broader community—through public programs, lectures, and seminars—to Buddhist ideas and traditions.

From left: Carl Bielefeldt, former Director, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Center for Buddhist Studies; John Kieschnick, current Center Co-Director and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies; Irene Lin, Center Executive Director; Robert H. N. Ho; Paul Harrison, Center Co-Director.

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2022 - 2025

US

One Mind Productions

Completing two short-films as part of an ongoing series, The Dreaming Buddhas Project, and supporting marketing and distribution of the feature-length documentary, The Mountain Path

2025 - 2026

Global

Woodenfish Foundation

Supporting Buddhist Studies Experiential Education Programs

2024 - 2026

Pakistan

Wilfrid Laurier University

Digitizing two-thousand-year-old Buddhist rock art, inscriptions, and petroglyphs; scholarly training and conferences; research dissemination through public art digital exhibit

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