Undergraduate and Graduate Offerings
The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Society endowment funds the teaching of several courses at UBC. To see all posts related to these courses:
2021 Summer Course Offerings in Buddhist Studies
With the 2021 winter academic term coming to [...]
Language Learning: Nepali and Tibetan Community-Engaged Language courses
Save the Date: Nepali and Tibetan Community-Engaged Language [...]
University of Toronto: New Online Certificate in Buddhist Studies Program
The Institute of Buddhist Studies announces a new educational [...]
UBC Himalaya Program Winter 2018 Course Offerings
Interested in learning more about the Himalaya region? [...]
2018 Winter Course Offerings in Buddhist Studies
With the start of the new 2018 academic year [...]
UBC Himalaya Program Winter 2017 Course Offerings
Interested in learning more about the Himalayan region? Take a [...]
There are several courses offered at UBC that cover Buddhism as well as other Asian religions, including their contemporary forms. Here is a list of relevant courses that cover Buddhism. To investigate new courses and which courses are offered in a given year, please check the UBC calendar.
Undergraduate
- ASIA 250 Introduction to Buddhism
- ASIA 371 Foundations of Chinese Thought
- ASIA 377 History of Korean Thought
- ASIA 378 Philosophical Wisdom of Early India
- ASIA 382 Buddhism in China
- ASIA 383 Common Religious Traditions in China
- ASIA 387 Japanese Religions
- ASIA 388 Buddhist, Brahamanical and Jain Philosophers in Interaction
- ASIA 398 Classical Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Myths in Translation
- ASIA 450 Special Topics in Buddhist Studies
- ASIA 485 Inventing Asian Religions in the West/East Encounter
Graduate
- ASIA 510 Monastic Hagio-Biographical Writings in Medieval East Asia
- ASIA 511 Buddhist and Taoist texts in Chinese
- ASIA 525 Topics in the Social History of Japanese Religions
- IAR 515B Buddhism and Contemporary Society
- IAR 515P Religion and Public Policy