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President-elect Lehmann Speaks with The Daily Cal

On June 8, 2018, the student-run newspaper of the University of California, Berkeley, The Daily Californian, published an article about the next president of the GTU, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann. In preparation for that article, reporters from The Daily Cal e-mailed a series of questions to Rabbi Lehmann. To help you get to know our new president better, we are pleased to present his full responses here. Can you explain your background and why that makes you qualified to be president of GTU? I have spent the last ten years leading Hebrew College, an institution of higher learning that provides...
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Nathan Michon Receives Fulbright Award to Study Buddhist Chaplaincy in Japan

Nathan Michon has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award to conduct research at Tohoku University in Japan as part of a dissertation project examining chaplaincy in contemporary Japanese Buddhism. A PhD student in the department of Cultural and Historical Studies in Religions with a concentration in Buddhist Studies, Michon is studying how Japanese clergy are combining approaches often employed in Western chaplaincy with traditional Japanese Buddhist meditations and other techniques to create innovative forms of caregiving. Chaplaincy is among the most dynamic aspects of...
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The GTU Creates a Doctoral Program for the 21st Century

by Arthur Holder from Currents Fall 2015 Responding to the changing landscapes of the academy and the wider society, the GTU has created an innovative approach to doctoral education that features new opportunities for interdisciplinary scholarship and interreligious conversation. Students who enter the PhD and ThD programs at the GTU in fall 2016 will be able to take advantage of this new approach. The curriculum recently adopted by the Core Doctoral Faculty builds on the historic strengths of the GTU while making the doctoral program more responsive to the diverse research interests and...
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Call for Papers, "Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Culture" Graduate Student Symposium

IBS is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium at the Institute of Buddhist Studies.  The theme this year is Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Culture.  Buddhist ritual practices are shaped by their location and are affected by the ritual objects. How does the material world determine the ways that Buddhism is practiced? How do Buddhists use ritual objects? In turn, how does Buddhism shape these objects and transform the physical world? What is the impact, for example, on the physical world as a result of religious pilgrimage or tourism? How do Buddhists...
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