Winners of the Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism

2022

Strong, John. The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

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2021

Jones, Christopher V. The Buddhist Self: On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020.

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2020

Jackson, Roger R. Mind Seeing Mind: Mahāmudrā and the Geluk Tradition. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2019. 

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2019

Swanson, Paul. Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight: T’ien-t’ai Chih-i’s Mo-ho Chih-kuan3 vols. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018. 

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2018

Tzohar, Roy. A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

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2017

Stone, Jacqueline IlyseRight Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2016.

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2016

Gyatso, Janet. Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. New York:Columbia University Press, 2015.

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2015

Ledderose, Lothar, and Sun Hua, eds. 中國佛教石經. 四川省 = Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan Province. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz ; Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Press, 2014.

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2014 

Braun, Erik. The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Nelson, John K. Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.

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2013

Arnold, Daniel. Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

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2011

Lewis, Todd, and Subarna Man Tuladhar. Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar HṛdayaNew York ; Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2010.

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2010

Robson, James. Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China. Boston: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.

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