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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.