Center for Buddhist Studies (CBS)

Lu Huang

2025-2027 Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellow of Chinese Buddhism
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies

Lu Huang received her PhD from Temple University in May 2025. Her research interests include the transmission of Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma in early medieval China, with a particular focus on the thought of Abhidharma masters before Xuanzang. Her publications, which have appeared in Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies and Religions, explore issues such as the borderland complex and the construction of religious authority within transnational transmission networks spanning India, Central Asia, and China.

Her dissertation investigates a sacred site called “...

Xiao Xiao

2025-2027 Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Buddhism
Center for Japanese Studies

Xiao Xiao specializes in early and medieval Japanese religions. He earned a Ph.D. in Religion from Columbia University in 2025. His research examines the intersections of narrative, memory, and history, exploring how religious imagination and literature participate in constructing the pasts of sacred spaces and religious institutions. His current project investigates the early history of Kiyomizudera in Kyoto and demonstrates how miracle narratives of Buddhist efficacy shaped the temple’s historical development and social identity.

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NCBS Announces the 2025 Toshihide Numata Book Award

September 11, 2025

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)....

Toshihide Numata Book Award (CBS)

Past Recipients Toshi Award (CBS)

2025 Annual Buddhist Studies Hike

September 9, 2025

Limantour Beach, September 6, 2025

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Berkeley Buddhist Studies at the IABS Conference, Leipzig, August 2025

September 8, 2025

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

Back row, L to R: Bob Sharf, Trent Walker, Oren Hanner, Stefan Baums, Lin Qian, Michael Radich, Paul Thomas, Sam Grimes, Brandon Dotson, Eric Greene, Matthew McMullen, Fedde de Vries
Front row, L to R: Kris Anderson, Nancy Lin, Rae Dachille,...

The Sugi Widjaja Family Undergraduate Scholarship in Buddhist Studies

February 16, 2025

For a general summary of the scholarship and access to the application, click here.