Āgama Research Group

The Āgama Research Group was (in)formally constituted in the autumn of 2012, with Bhikkhu Anālayo and Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā as founding co-directors. Our group grew out of the long-term personal and scholarly friendship and collaboration among its core members, scholars based at or affiliated with the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts in Taiwan. The Āgama Research Group’s vision as an academic and practice community is informed by the intention to support the dialogue between traditional and text-critical / text-historical learning – the study of the Dharma, and the study of ‘Buddhism’. The Āgama Research Group is at the same time dedicated to collaborative research between philologically trained scholars who specialise in early Buddhist philology and scholars of the digital humanities, and it is devoted to fostering exchange between local scholars in the Buddhist countries and international academia.