Patricia Berger
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Patricia Berger, Professor Emerita of Chinese Art, received her Ph.D. in the History of Art in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1997, she served as Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and taught at Oberlin College and the University of Southern California. |
| Status: Faculty Emerita |
Mark Blum
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Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, specializes in Pure Land Buddhism throughout East Asia, with a focus on the Japanese medieval period. He also works in the area of Japanese Buddhist reponses to modernism, Buddhist conceptions of death in China and Japan, historical consciousness in Buddhist thought, and the impact of the Nirvana Sutra |
| Status: Faculty |
Osmund Bopearachchi
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Osmund Bopearachchi is the Adjunct Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics, University of California, Berkeley and Emeritus Director of Research of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.-E.N.S. Paris) and former Visiting Professor and Member of the Doctoral School VI of the Paris IV-Sorbonne University. |
| Status: Adjunct Faculty |
Jacob Dalton
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Jacob Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, works on tantric ritual, Nyingma religious history, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is co-author of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (Brill, 2006) and author of The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism (Yale University Press, 2011), Through the Eyes of the Compendium of Intentions: The History of a Tibetan Ritual Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2016), and Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Columbia University Press, forthcoming). |
| Status: Faculty |
Penelope Edwards
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Penelope Edwards teaches in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies and works on Burma, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora and is broadly interested in culture, people and literature in translation across time and space. |
| Status: Faculty |
Robert P. Goldman
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Robert Goldman is Professor of Sanskrit. His areas of scholarly interest include Sanskrit literature and literary theory, Indian Epic Studies, and psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies. He is perhaps best known for his work as the Director, General Editor, and a principal translator of a massive and fully annotated translation of the critical edition of the Valmiki Ramayana. |
| Status: Faculty Emeritus |
Lewis R. Lancaster
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Lew Lancaster has taught and published widely on the history and interpretation of Buddhism in Korea, China, Mongolia, Tibet, and Thailand, and he has pioneered in the application of new technology to the study of Buddhist texts and traditions. He is currently producing a Digital Atlas of Chinese Religions under a grant from the Luce Foundation. |
| Status: Faculty Emeritus |
Gregory Levine
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A historian of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures, Gregory Levine is at work on a trilogy that examines modern-contemporary Buddhist visual cultures: Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments (2017); Buddha Heads: Fragments and Landscapes; and Other Buddhas: Race, War, and Buddhist Visual Culture. A concurrent book project is titled Tree-Buddhas: On Art History Nearing the End of a World. |
| Status: Faculty |
Eleanor Rosch
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Professor Rosch is known for her work in concepts and categorization in cognitive psychology which has been influential in many fields (one of which is prototype theory in linguistics) and for her more recent work on Eastern psychologies and the psychology of religion. |
| Status: Faculty Emerita |
Alexander Von Rospatt
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Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) right to the present. |
| Status: Faculty |
Robert Sharf
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Robert Sharf works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. |
| Status: Faculty |