Graduate students in Buddhism benefit from our area strengths in both pre-modern and contemporary Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. Advanced study of Bengali, Buddhist-hybrid Sanskrit, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Malayalam, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese and other Buddhist languages are offered for interested students. Anthropological, historical, material-visual cultural, philological, socio-political, and textual approaches are all possible, and students typically take courses not only in RELS but also in Ancient History, Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Music, and South Asian Studies.