神学硕士

自哈佛成立以来，对部长的教育一直是哈佛使命的核心。认识到世界是一个宗教多元化的地方，许多信仰社区的MDiv学生并肩学习，以增进对宗教间对话和工作的了解。作为在事奉和力量上不断增加的多样性的一部分，HDS建立了新近专注的佛教事工倡议，其他类似的倡议也可能随之而来。HDS MDiv经验的独特性在于，相信作为一名博学的牧师，必须学习自己的宗教传统并与他人接触。HDS的MDiv学生学习让自己在某个环境中获得的知识（例如，教室，医院或会众）告知并增强在另一个环境中获得的知识。即将毕业的MDiv学生离开HDS时所拥有
The education of learned ministers has been central to the mission of Harvard since its founding. Recognizing that the world is a religiously plural place, MDiv students of many faith communities study side by side in order to foster a greater understanding of interreligious dialogue and work. As part of its growing diversity in ministry offerings and strengths, HDS has established a newly focused Buddhist Ministry Initiative, and other such initiatives may follow. The uniqueness of the HDS MDiv experience lies in the belief that to be a learned minister it is imperative both to study one's own religious tradition and to be exposed to others. MDiv students at HDS learn to let the knowledge gained in one's setting-a classroom or hospital or congregation, for example-inform and enhance the knowledge gained in another. Graduating MDiv students leave HDS with a toolkit that prepares them to serve within a religious community, to explore the spiritually formative dimension of intellectual work, to evaluate and act on the needs and questions of religious communities and beyond, and to speak with both a pastoral and a public voice.