| | Robert Buswell, Asian Languages and Cultures [UCLA Spotlight] |
 | | One of only two scholars currently active in academe to have been fully ordained Buddhist monks, the chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures and 17-year UCLA College veteran has brought one distinction after another to UCLA. |
 | | Both of the centers he has established now rank as the largest of their kind in the country: the Center for Korean Studies, founded in 1993, and the Center for Buddhist Studies, founded in 2000. |
 | | While maintaining its traditional strengths in Korean, Japanese and Chinese studies, UCLA’s newly christened Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will boast one of the nation’s largest faculties in Southeast Asian and Indic studies and will be the nation’s leader in Indian religion. |
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