About The Institute of Buddhist Studies

Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city upon the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern link up with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580. According to datausa.io Berkeley now has about 120,926 people.

Berkeley is house to the oldest campus in the University of California system, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed and operated by the University. It as a consequence has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world. Berkeley is considered one of the most socially modern cities in the United States.