DIRI Update

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

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 and individuals interested in Buddhism in the Gandhara region (present-day...Read More

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

The course Buddhist Thought has been taught at the University of Otago for over seventeen years as the result of an MoU between the University and the 60th Dhammachai Education Foundation (the 60th DEF) & Dhammachai International Research Institute (DIRI). The chairman of institutes, Phramaha Sudham Suratano (PhD, 9th grade of Pali Studies) will award scholarships to students who obtain the highest mark on the course in every year. On...Read More