Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, oversees a variety of research programs, scholarly events and outreach activities. Activities include a colloquium series, conferences, a visiting scholar program and the International Buddhist Film Festival.

Robert Bushwell is a professor of Buddhist studies in the University of California, Los Angeles department of Asian languages and cultures, the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in humanities at UCLA and the founding director of the university’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Korean Studies. He is considered to be the premier Western […]

Buddhist Churches of America, with headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., is the United States branch of the Honpa Hongan-ji sub-sect of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. The main temple of this sect is Ryukoku-zan Hongwanji in Kyoto, Japan. BCA is a nonprofit religious corporation with more than 60 independent temples and a number of fellowships and sanghas. […]

Mark Blum is a University of California, Berkeley professor and Shinjo Ito distinguished chair in Japanese studies. He specializes in Pure Land Buddhism throughout East Asia and also works in the area of Japanese Buddhist responses to modernism, Buddhist conceptions of death in China and Japan and historical consciousness in Buddhist thought.

Walter Truett Anderson is an independent writer, lecturer, political scientist, social psychologist and author of Open Secrets: A Western Guide to Tibetan Buddhism and The Next Enlightenment, which highlights the similarities between Western constructivist thought and Eastern spiritual traditions such as Buddhism.

The Sikh Sport Association organizes sporting events for Sikhs and tracks Sikh athletes in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. It is based in Danville, Calif., and the organization maintains a list of contacts by sports.

Jewish Sports Review is a bimonthly, subscription-only online publication that covers Jewish sports figures — both on the field and in the front office. It also covers Israeli sports. It is based in Los Angeles, and Shel Wallman is the editor.

Shawn Sorenson is the director of the Spirituality and Sports program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Calif. The program brings in speakers and hosts events on the intersection of sports and faith.

Varun Soni is dean of religious life at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where there is a Spirituality and Sports Program. He wrote an essay for The Huffington Post about how his Hinduism is affected by following the perennially last-place Los Angeles Clippers, and he was part of a panel discussion that […]