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Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, passed away on August 3, 2019, at the age of 54. She died of natural causes. A distinguished scholar and engaging teacher, Monius taught for 17 years at Harvard Divinity School, where she specialized in...

HDS alum Joshua Eaton writes about the ways religious stereotypes inform responses to violence.

At the annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, Robert Desjarlais elaborated on the beliefs of Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists.

HDS student Bhante Kusala talks about growing up in Sri Lanka, coping with pain and suffering, and the inspiration he finds as a hospital chaplain.

HDS faculty and friends remembered Professor Anne E. Monius during a memorial service on October 11, 2019. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away on August 3, 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [INDIAN MUSIC PLAYING] Good...

Francisca Cho proposes that Buddhist epistemic frameworks regarding the nature of ritual apparitions offer an account of the religious possibilities of film that is absent in Western phenomenological conversations on the same topic.

“Recently, I have realized that, at the bottom of everything, I came to the study of South Asian religion and Indian philosophy because I couldn’t imagine not reading Sanskrit every day.”— Eliot Davenport, MTS '18

On February 10, 2014, Rev. James Ishmael Ford, UU World online columnist, was a guest speaker of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School.

The HDS alumna's debut poetry collection "The Weather and Our Tempers" has gotten the attention of the Wall Street Journal. Learn how her academic work and poetry mingle.

In this talk, Buddhist teacher and minister Anam Thubten discusses his journey from Golok, in Eastern Tibet, to teaching Buddhist wisdom with an American community. This talk is part of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative Speaker Series.

Lawrence Levy, the former CFO of Pixar and co-founder of the Juniper Foundation, discusses mindfulness, contemporary and corporate America, and his transition from full-time corporate executive to meditation teacher.

WSRP Research Associate Changshen Shi (Ching-ning Wang) delivers the talk, "The Making of A Modern Female Chan Teacher: Gender, Religion, and Modernity."