School
I Go to School with Buddhist Monks
- Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:40
- Barbara Chai
Speakeasy reporter Barbara Chai is traveling to Dharamsala, India, this week for a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Southeast Asia Trekkers Discover Different Things
- Saturday, 03 March 2012 01:43
- Viên Minh
For three weeks in January, DePauw students and professors toured Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, exploring cities and villages, rivers and ruins. The trip was meant to uncover how a French colonial past still affects life on the Indochinese peninsula, although what the group found depends on whom you ask.
Stanford, Harvard get $5.2 million for Buddhist studies
- Friday, 07 October 2011 17:19
- Steven E.F. Brown
Stanford University and Harvard University have gotten $5.2 million in grants from Hong Kong’s Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation to “promote the understanding of Buddhist philosophy in the West.”
Foundation donates $2.5 million to establish Buddhist Studies chair
- Thursday, 06 October 2011 03:59
- The Daily News Staff
Hong Kong’s Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation announced a $2.5 million donation on Monday to establish an endowed Buddhist Studies chair at Stanford’s Robert Ho Center for Buddhist Studies. With a matching gift from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the money will go toward funding the first permanent faculty post dedicated to Buddhism at the University.
