Center for Buddhist Studies (CBS)

Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science

April 25, 2014
Conference, Multiple

This conference was made possible by a grant from The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation and is dedicated to the exploration of the methodological underpinnings of the current encounter between Buddhism and cognitive science. Recently, this encounter has been criticized for failing to take account of the historical and cultural complexities of Buddhist thought and practice, failing to reflect the most recent...

2018 Chao Presidential Chair: Evan Thompson, University of British Columbia

March 14, 2018
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head shot of Evan Thompson2018 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

Mindfulness meditation practices are often...

Center for Buddhist Studies joins the new Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultures

January 9, 2019
Kathleen Maclay, Media relations

UC Berkeley’s Center for Buddhist Studies is part of a new international network of universities that is receiving $4.9 million to advance the study of Buddhism and East Asian cultures.

https://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/Berkeley%20part%20of%20new%20international%…

2017 Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation and Symposium

December 1, 2017
Center for Buddhist Studies

Professor Jacqueline I. Stone was presented with the Toshihide Numata Book Award on the afternoon of Friday, December 1, 2017. The prize presentation included a keynote by the author and a symposium with talks by Professors James Benn (McMaster University), Gregory Schopen (UCLA), and Mark Blum (UC Berkeley).

The Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is awarded on an annual basis to an...

2019 Chao Presidential Chair - David Germano (University of Virginia)

April 1, 2019
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2019 Chao Presidential Chair
David Germano, University of Virginia

2019 Seminar Series
David Germano teaches a weekly graduate-level seminar, reading with graduate students across several departments in the Tibetan Buddhist literature of the Great Perfection, one of today's most popular Buddhist traditions around...

The Center for Buddhist Studies Announces the Winner of the 2011 Toshihide Numata Book Award

August 25, 2011
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BERKELEY — The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce that the 2011 Toshihide Numata Book Award has been awarded to Todd Lewis and Subarna Man Tuladhar for their jointly authored book, Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya (Oxford...

2018 Khyentse Lecture - Buddhism and Divination in Tibet

February 8, 2018
Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University

In Tibet, various forms of divination persist both within and alongside the Buddhist and Bon religions. Excavated divination texts from Dunhuang and from other Silk Road sites furnish us with traces of the dynamic processes by which Buddhism absorbed various divination techniques practiced in 8th to 10th centuries. This lecture will introduce an early form of Tibetan dice divination involving...

2012 Khyentse Lecture - Tibet in the Age of Manuscripts: Reflections on Recent Textual Discoveries

February 16, 2012
Matthew T. Kapstein, Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago Divinity School

During the past few decades, the discovery, cataloguing, and partial publication of important Tibetan manuscript collections has substantially transformed our view of the intellectual and religious history of Tibet. Important developments about which we were almost entirely ignorant only a decade ago may now be studied in detail thanks to copious newly available documentation. The present talk will...

2018 Khyentse Lecture - Brandon Dotson (Georgetown University)

February 28, 2018
Center for Buddhist Studies

Approximately 70 people attended the 2018 Khyentse Lecture by Prof. Brandon Dotson (Georgetown University). In his lecture, entitled "Buddhism and Divination in Tibet," Dotson introduced an early form of Tibetan dice divination involving intimate exchanges with gods and with goddesses (sman), and considered how Buddhism variously transformed, absorbed, and transmitted such divination...

2016 Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation and Symposium

October 28, 2016
Center for Buddhist Studies

During a ceremony at the Alumni House, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (Numata Foundation) presented the 2016 Toshihide Numata Book Award to Professor Janet Gyatso (Harvard Divinity School) for Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015...