Center for Buddhist Studies (CBS)

September 10, 2026

The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is Professor Jessica Zu (Professor, University of Southern California), for her book Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2025).

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2026 Annual Buddhist Studies Hike

September 13, 2026

2026 Buddhist Studies Hike, Muir Beach

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2025-2026 Buddhist Studies Events

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Toward an Inquiry into the Circulation of Sanskrit Manuscripts within Indian Monastic Communities in the Medieval Period
Kazuo Kano, Associate Professor at Komazawa University.

This presentation opens with an examination of the colophons found in Sanskrit manuscripts preserved in Tibet. A number of these colophons contain Tibetan annotations, which, on occasion, record details such as the manuscript’s provenance, location of storage, and the identities of successive owners. Such marginalia provide vivid testimony to the...