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The latest lecture in the OCBS DIRI Lecture Series is now available to stream! 📖 Title: Anuruddha and Mahā-Kaccāna: Tracing the Contours of Two Early Buddhist Lineages🎙 Speaker: Dr. Alexander Wynne📅 Date: 12 March 2025 In this insightful talk, Dr. Wynne examines two prominent disciples of the Buddha—Anuruddha, a Sakya from Kapilavatthu and cousin of the Buddha, and Mahā-Kaccāna, the son of a royal purohita from Ujjeni. Rather than being...Read More

Missed the live session? The recorded lecture from the OCBS DIRI Lecture Series is now available! The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (OCBS), in collaboration with the Dhammachai International Research Institute (DIRI), invites you to an insightful lecture as part of the OCBS DIRI Lecture Series. Topic: Gender and Buddhist Doctrine Speaker: Prof. Alice Collett (University of St Andrews) In this thought-provoking lecture, Prof. Collett critically examines gender representations in...Read More

The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (OCBS), in collaboration with the Dhammachai International Research Institute (DIRI), invites you to an insightful lecture as part of the OCBS DIRI Lecture Series. Date: 26 February 2025 Time: 16:00 GMT Speaker: Dr. Aleix Ruiz Falqués Topic: “Editing Jātakas in the 15th Century: Jātakavisodhana by Ariyavaṁsa and Premodern Pali Philology” Abstract: The Pali Canon has been transmitted through manuscripts for more than twenty centuries....Read More

Participation in the 2025 Woodenfish-Waksaw Gandhara Buddhism Seminar in Pakistan Mr. Kittipong Vongagson, a researcher at the Dhammachai International Research Institute (DIRI) and a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Buddhist Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich(LMU), participated in the 2025 Woodenfish-Waksaw Gandhara Buddhism Seminar in Pakistan (January 9-18, 2025). The seminar was organized through the collaboration of the Woodenfish Institute and the Waksaw Institute, and it invited 30 scholars...Read More

DIRI Digitization project at Nakornsrithammarat Digitization of palm-leaf manuscripts is one of DIRI’s projects to help preserve and pass on the original teachings of the Buddha written in various ancient scriptures. This time, the team found many interesting meditation scriptures, some of which were from the Ayutthaya period. การถ่ายดิจิทัลคัมภีร์ เป็นหนึ่งในผลงานการวิจัยของสถาบันวิจัยนานาชาติธรรมชัย แห่งประเทศนิวซีแลนด์ (ดีรี) เพื่อสืบค้นคำสอนดั้งเดิมของพระพุทธเจ้า และมีส่วนช่วยในการอนุรักษ์และสืบทอดคำสอนของพระพุทธเจ้าที่จารอยู่ในคัมภีร์โบราณต่างๆด้วย ซึ่งในครั้งนี้ทีมงานได้พบคัมภีร์เกี่ยวกับกัมมัฎฐาน โดยบางผูกอยู่ในสมัยอยุธยาRead More