The Institute of Buddhist Studies is a leading American Buddhist graduate school and seminary that provides graduate-level education across the full breadth of the Buddhist tradition, with specialized training in academic studies of Buddhism, Buddhist chaplaincy, and Jodo Shinshu Buddhist ministry. In addition to offering rigorous and personalized educational programs, IBS produces excellent and innovative research that advances scholarship on Buddhism in general, and Pure Land and contemporary Shin Buddhist studies in particular. IBS fosters engaged and inclusive community through conferences, symposia, talks, and other events on issues of interest for scholars, practitioners, and the general public.