University of Pennsylvania Research in Buddhist Studies

"Buddhist Studies has a long history at the University of Pennsylvania with special focus on Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Buddhist traditions and more recently on Buddhism in Southeast Asia. Religious Studies graduate and undergraduate students specializing in Buddhist Studies are overseen byJustin McDaniel. The program’s special strengths in this area are in Theravada Buddhism, Pali and Buddhist-Hybrid Sanskrit literature, Buddhism in Laos and Thailand, Japanese Buddhism, early Chinese Buddhism and Taoism, ritual and magic, Buddhist monasticism and education, Manuscript Studies/Codicology, Material Culture, and Buddhist art (especially Thai, Indian, and Japanese). Both anthropological and textual approaches are highly encouraged."

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/religious_studies/research/buddhist-studies