Visiting Faculty

Norihisa Baba

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Fall 2025
Group in Buddhist Studies

Ester Bianchi

Glorisun Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Spring 2026

Christian Coseru

Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Philosophy, Spring 2025/Spring 2026

Christian Coseru is the Spring 2026 Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston. Prof. Coseru specializes in philosophy of mind and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Indian and Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western (classical and contemporary) philosophy and cognitive science. He is the author of Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy (OUP 2012), and editor of Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality (Springer 2023)....