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BERKELEY — The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,  is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Toshihide Numata Book Award in  Buddhism is Professor Collett Cox (Professor Emerita, University of Washington), for  her book A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28 (Seattle:  Washington University Press, 2025).

Limantour Beach, September 6,  2025

XXth International Association of Buddhist Studies Conference
Leipzig University, Germany. August 10th – 15th, 2025

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2024 Buddhist Studies Hike Photo Album (in progress)

BERKELEY— The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announcethat the winner of the 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is Professor John Kieschnick (Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies, Stanford University), for his book Buddhist Historiography in China (Columbia University Press, 2022).

2023 Buddhist Studies Hike Photo Album

2022 Buddhist Studies Hike Photo Album

2019 Buddhist Studies Hike Photo Album

The Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding book or books in the area of Buddhist studies. The selection is made by an external committee that is appointed annually. This year's winner is Professor Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University) for his book A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor (Oxford University Press).

BERKELEY — The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2018 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is Professor Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University) for his book: A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor (Oxford University Pr

2018 Lecture and Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 5 pm
Annual Lecture by Evan Thompson
Meditation and Nonconceptual Awareness Perspectives from Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley

Jack Meng-Tat Chia is a Senior Tutor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Born and raised in Singapore, he received his MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, and his PhD in History from Cornell University. He is currently working on his book manuscript, entitled Diaspora's Dharma: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea.

2018 Buddhist Studies Hike Photo Album