traveling, studying, and researching in eight Asian countries. Students must have taken three courses in the Asian studies program and completed a course of readings assigned by the director. Over the program's 40-year history students have visited: Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea, India, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, and Yugoslavia. Previous lecturers have included: Johan Galtung, Ken Yeang, M.S. Nagaraja Rao, Jack Weatherford, the 14th Dalai Lama, Swasti Sri Charukeerthi Bhattaraka, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, and Sogyal Rinpoche.
== Athletics ==
Puget Sound athletics teams are nicknamed the "Loggers." The teams' mascot is "Grizz the Logger," a costumed student dressed as an anthropomorphic brown bear wearing stereotypical lumberjack attire and carrying a small axe. The Loggers participate in the NCAA's Division III Northwest Conference, competing with George Fox University, …
