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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).

BERKELEY — The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is Professor John Strong (Emeritus Professor, Bates), for his book, The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

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2022 Khyentse Lecture

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Our revered colleague, teacher and friend, Prof. Padmanabh Srivarma Jaini, master of Buddhist and Jain Studies, passed away on Tuesday May 25, just five months shy from what would have been his 98th birthday.

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2021 Khyentse Lecture

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2020 Toshihide Numata Book Award Announcement

BERKELEY — The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is Roger R. Jackson (John W.

Charles Ramble ( Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)  - "Leaves on the Forest Floor: Towards a Method of Mapping the Evolution of Tibetan Ritual Complexes"

2019 Numata Symposium to Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Numata Chair Program at UC Berkeley.

Professor Jay Garfield (Smith College) will be the 2020 Chao Presidential Chair in Buddhist Studies.