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Thinking Collectively through Ecological Crisis

In April 2025, researchers from the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies contributed to the seminar ‘Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world’ at the University of Copenhagen.

Dialogue on Buddhist and other influences on Bhutan’s sustainable development philosophy

The Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies (CCBS) hosted a virtual session with Dasho Paljor J. Dorji, a Special Advisor to the National Environment Commission of Bhutan. The session, which took place as a dialogue,…

Talk on Buddhist lessons for sustainability by a Bhutanese expert

Dasho Karma Ura, one of Bhutan’s foremost interdisciplinary scholars on societal and environmental wellbeing, gave a talk on Buddhist perspectives and lessons on sustainability titled ‘Navigating dangerous emotions and…

The CCBS welcomes a new member of the research team: Dendup Chophel

Dendup Chophel is an anthropologist (PhD from the Australian National University) who has joined the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies as a Postdoctoral Fellow on 1 January 2024.

Postdoctoral position: BUDDHISM AND WASTE

Application deadline: 25 November 2022.

The CCBS to welcome a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow

Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar with interest in Japanese religions, rurality, depopulation, value economies, affect, gender, and materiality.

New PhD student

The CCBS welcomes a new member of the team; Sierra Humbert

Sierra Humbert has received a 3-year PhD scholarship from the Velux Foundations.

Stephen Christopher

The CCBS welcomes a new member of the team; Stephen Christopher

Stephen Christopher has received the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme, European Commission.