沼田仏教講座

Throughout history, Buddhism has spread and gained believers through cultural exchanges and interaction. Assisting in Buddhism's popularization and development since ancient times in Japan were venerated institutions and centers of higher learning which are comparable to today's universities, for example, Tendai Buddhism had Mt. Hiei and Shingon Buddhism had Mt. Koya.

In continuing with this historical process, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai has established the Numata Program in Buddhist Studies program at leading universities in North America and Europe as one of its main projects to promote and introduce Buddhism to the world. The first "Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies" was established at the University of California, Berkeley in January, 1984, and since that time, the program has grown to include 17 major universities in North America and Europe.

Introduction of Chair Holder Universities


Late Dr. Rev. Yehan Numata signed with Harvard University

Late Dr. Yehan Numata signed with University of Oxford

Numata Buddhist Chair Directors Meeting 2008

America University of California, Berkeley,Harvard University,University of Chicago,University of Hawaii, Smith College,Institute of Buddhist Studies,University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University
Canada University of Calgary,University of Toronto,McGill University,McMaster University
United Kingdom University of Oxford※,University of London ※From September 2005 to March 2008, BDK received the heartfelt support of many people to whom we are most grateful and who share a common commitment to Buddhism in helping to establish the Numata Chair at Oxford University.
Europe Leiden University,University of Vienna,University of Hamburg

Numata Program in Buddhist Studies 2019

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United States of America

University Professor Course/Content
University of Califronia,
Berkeley		 Designated Visiting Professor Martin Delhey from Germany was not able to fulfill this appointment due to his move to China to assume a new position.
Other syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Lecture:“Avalokitasvara/Avalokiteśvara, Amitabha/Amitayus and pratyekabuddha/pratyayabuddha: Misinterpretations of Gandhari Buddhism by Sanskrit Composers of the Mahayana Scriptures”by Seishi Karashima, Soka University (73 attendees)
Lecture:“Buddhist Contemplation and Higher Education: Researching and Adapting Contemplation in Modern Universities” – David Germano, University of Virginia (62 attendees)
Lecture:“A Tantric Theology from 12th Century Tibet” – Matthew Kapstein, Professor Emeritus, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris/Numata Visiting Professor, University of Chicago (69 attendees)
Lecture:“Filled with Meaning: Why Do the Contents of Buddhist Statues Matter?”by James Robson, Harvard University (55 attendees)
Numata Symposium in honor of the 35th Anniversary of the Numata Chair Program:“Buddhist Philosophy: The State of the Field” – “Mark Siderits on Anumana” - Shoryu Katsura, BDK; “Knowing Illusion: Studying Geluk-Sakya/Kagyu Polemics following Takstang’s “18 Great Contradictions in the Thought of Tsongkhapa” – Jay Garfield, Smith College; “When Chan Meets the Logicians: Miun Yuanwu’s (1566-1642) Response in the Debate on No-Motion” – Lin Chen-kuo, National Chengchi University; “Location, Location, Location! Thoughts on the Philosophical Implications of a Locative Absolute” – Dan Arnold, University of Chicago; “How To Balance Philology and Philosophy in the Study of Madhyamaka” – Jay Westerhoff, Oxford University; “Salience, Attention and Exclusion” – Cat Prueitt, University of British Columbia; “Why Buddhists Argue” – Parimal Patil, Harvard; “What Use is Buddhist Philosophy? Constructing the Path for Academia” – Jonathan Gold, Princeton (61 attendees)
Lecture:“From Being “Enlightened” to Being Woke:” Radical Justice Work in American Convert Buddhism”by Ann Gleig, Central Florida University (32 attendees)
Lecture: “Science of Salvation in Sa skya Soteriological Treatise in Pre-Classical Mongolian Verse”by Brian Baumann, University of California, Berkeley (43 attendees)
Lecture:“Dual-Aspect Reflexivism in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind" by Matt MacKenzie, Colorado State University (61 attendees)
Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation & Symposium –Winner: Paul Swanson, Nanzan Institute – “In Search of Clarity: Reflections on 30+ Years of Translation.” Panel Participants: “Three Thousand Realms in a Single Thought: Some Japanese Readings of a Passage from Zhiyi” – Jackie Stone, Princeton; “Zhiyi’s Demons” – John Kieschnick, Stanford; “The Eye of the Beholder: Early Buddhist Translations through Medieval Chinese Eyes” – Jan Nattier, UC Berkeley Tianzhu Visiting Professor; (45 attendees)
Lecture:“Chiasmus in Bodhisattva Literature: Two Examples and Theorizing a Meta-Structure” – Matthew Osborn, National Taiwan University (52 attendees)
Lecture:“On the Interior Life of Master Hongyi (1880-1942), a Modern Chinese Buddhist Artist-Monk: Three or Four Strands” by Rauol Birnbaum, UC Santa Cruz (45 attendees)
Lecture:“Temporality and Buddha-Nature in Tiantai Buddhist Thought”by Brook Ziporyn, Tianzhu Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley (University of Chicago) (59 attendees)
Lecture:“Leaves on the Forest Floor: Towards a Method of Mapping the Evolution of Tibetan Ritual Complexes”by Charles Ramble, Ecole Pratique des Hautes, (39 attendees)
Lecture:“Silk, gold and glass: Upper Mustang and Nepal and the Silk Roads After 400 CE) by Mark Aldenderfer, UC Merced; Co-sponsored with Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (41 attendees)
Lecture: “Continuing Workshop on Tannisho Commentarial Materials” - co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies; UC Berkeley Center for Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University, Otani University and Institute of Buddhist Studies with support from BDK America

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Dr. Charles Hallisey
Harvard Divinity School		 “Buddhists and Buddhism Amongst the Religions” (20 students)
“The Lotus Sutra: Engaging a Buddhist Scripture” (26 students)
“Reading Post-Canonical Pali” (6 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of Chicago Dr. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago		 Due to the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, Professor Kapstein is not teaching this 2020 Spring Quarter and will teach one additional quarter next Spring Quarter 2021. However, he continues to advise five doctoral students even though he is not on site in Chicago this year.

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Dr. Jamie Hubbard
Smith College		 “Buddhist Meditation” (13 students)
“Zen Buddhism & Japanese Culture” (16 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University pf Hawaii No visiting professor appointed for the 2019-2020 school year.

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of Buddhist Studies Prof. Richard K. Payne Methods in the Study of Buddhism (4 students)
Esoteric Buddhism (4 students)
Public Lecture: “Robots in Robes: Buddhism AI and Skillful Means”by Dr. Courtney Bruntz, Doane University
The IBS continues to issue the “Pacific World” journal now in its Fourth Series, available on-line, open access and peer reviewed.

University Professor Course/Content
University of California,
Los Angeles		 UCLA hosts Numata Lectures and Programs and no visiting scholar
Lecture:“Misinterpretations of Gandhari Buddhism by Sanskrit Composers of the Mahayana Scriptures”by Seishi Karashima, Soka University (30 attendees)
Lecture: “Ethnic and Religious Tensions in Myanmar: A Buddhist Perspective with Ven. Ashin Issariya”by Ven. Ashin Issariya, Wimoteti Thuka Monastery (40 attendees)
Lecture: “Schopen Matters: Reflections on and Appreciation of the Scholarship of Gregory Schopen” – speakers:
Daniel Boucher, Cornell; Robert L. Brown, UCLA; Shayne Clarke, McMaster; Donald Lopez, Michigan; Patrick Olivellie, UT, Austin; Richard Salomon, U of Washington (80 attendees)
Lecture:“Workshop on Korean History, culture and Society in Honor of Professor John B. Duncan”by Dr. Lindsey DeWitt, Ghent University (20 attendees) (120 attendees)
Lecture:“On Lore, Lived Religion and the Allure of World Heritage at Japan’s Male-Only Sacred Sites by Dr. Lindsey DeWitt, Ghent University (20 attendees)
Lecture:“Buddhism and Violence in Asia: The Case of the Military in Tibet during the Ganden Phodrang Period (1642-1959)” – speakers: Alice Travers, CNRS, CRCAO; Ryosuke Kobayashi, Kyushu University; Federica Venturi, CNRS, CRCAO, UCLA
Lecture: “A Dialogue between Global Citizenship Education and the Buddhist Tradition of Soka Gakkai” – Prof. Jason Goulah, Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies, DePaul University; Prof. Maria Guajardo, Soka University; Ruby Nagashima, UCLA; discussion led by Prof. Robert Buswell and event organized by Prof. Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA.

University Professor Course/Content
Princeton University Numata Visiting Scholar and Program Fund was established in 2018
“Original Thoughts” an International Conference Honoring the Retirement of Professor Jacqueline I. Stone, Professor of Japanese Religions.
Speakers: Jan Nattier, UC Berkeley; Helen Hardacre, Harvard; Timothy Benedict, Kwansei Gakuen; Takashi Miura, Arizona; Jolyon Thomas, Pennsylvania; Mark Rowe, McMaster; James Dobbins, Oberlin; Brian Ruppert, Bates; Asuka Sango, Carleton; Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State; Lucia Dolce, SOAS; Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt; Lori Meeks, UCLA; James Ford, Wake Forest; Bob Sharf, UC Berkeley;

Canada

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Toronto invites hosts Numata Lectures and Programs and no visiting Scholar
Lecture: “Suffering, Pathos, and Buddhist Doctrine at a Contemporary Japanese Leprosarium” (12 attendees)
Reading Group – “Audience, Authorship and Agency: Religious Educational Materials for Buddhist Women’s Groups in Japan, 1900-1933”by Jessica Starling, Lewis & Clark College (8 attendees)
Lecture: “Buddhist Scriptures Belonging to the (Mula-)Sarvastivadins Transmitted to Kuchean Buddhism” (15 attendees)
Reading Group – “The Transmission of Buddhist Texts to Tocharian Buddhism,” by Hirotoshi Ogihara. Kyoto University (21 attendees)
Lecture: “An Outline of the Analytical Study of Adhikarana in the Vinaya Texts” (18 attendees)
Reading Group – “To What Extent Can the Vinaya Be Dissected?” by Shizuka Sasaki, Hanazono University (10 attendees)
Lecture: “Reborn in Beijing: Indian Masters, Tibetan Translators, and Mongol Khans at the Eighteenth Century Machu Court”by Wen-Shing Chou, City University of New York (5 attendees)
Reading Group – “Refuge in the Empire: Visualizing Kingship in Qing Dynasty China”by Wen-Shing Chou, City University of New York (10 attendees)
Lecture: “Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility, Identity, And Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism” (8 attendees) by Rongdao Lai, McGill University
Reading Group – “Rewriting Orthodoxy: Historical Production in 20th Century Chinese Buddhism”by Rongdao Lai, McGill University (16 attendees)
Lecture:“The Afterlives of Buddhist Material Objects”by Trine Brox, University of Copenhagen (20 attendees)
Reading Group “Theorizing The Wear and Waste of a Buddhist, Efficacious Object.”by Trine Brox, University of Copenhagen (5 attendees)
Ho Center Workshop co-sponsored by the Numata Program – “New Paths in Teaching Buddhist Studies” – convened over 20 Buddhist scholars from throughout North America to discuss a wide range of approaches to teaching Buddhist Studies.

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Robert Rhodes
Otani University		 "Issues in Buddhist Studies" (5 students)
Public Lecture: "The Realms of Transmigration and the Pure Land in Genshin’s Ojoyoshu” (20 attendees)
Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) International Conference – co-sponsored by BDK Canada
Speakers included: Ryuichi Abe, Harvard; Haruko Wakabayashi, Rutgers; Brian Ruppert, Bard College; Robert Rhodes, Otani; Chris Callahan, Illinois; Aaron Proffitt, Albany; Satomi Yamamoto, Waseda; Hank Glassman, Haverford College; Halle O’Neal, Edinburgh; Eric Swanson, Harvard; Heather Blair, Indiana, Bloomington; Uejima Susumu, Kyoto; Emanuela Sala, SOAS; Emily Simpson, UCSB/Dartmouth; Jeffrey Kotyk, McMaster; Ethan Bushelle, Western Washington; Mikael Bauer, McGill and Matthew Stavros.

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Dr. Wendy Adamek
University of Calgary		 Fall 2019 Semester:
Research & Critical Inquiry in Religious Studies (24 students)
Advanced Studies in Buddhism: Psychology and Buddhism (7 students)

Spring 2020 Semester:
Buddhist Practice Traditions (35 students)
Yehan Numata Lectures:
“Lessons from Little Girls: On Bodies, Bodhi and Buddhahood”by Stephanie Balkwill, University of Winnipeg (30 attendees).
“Happiness Is Here and Now: Repackaging South Korean Buddhism for an Ailing Nation" by Se-Woong Koo, Journalist (40 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
McMaster University The Numata Program at McMaster was established in 2019 and there was no allocation from the Numata Endowment for any programs during the 2019-2020 school year.

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford 		Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
Univeristy of Oxford
May 2019-March 2020		 Year around Lecture (2019-2020):
"Buddhist Sanskrit and Chinese"
"Buddhist Literature (primarily Sanskrit and Chinese)"

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
May 2019-March 2020		 "East Asian Buddhist Thought"
"Japanese Buddhist Thought"

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University Prof.Dr. Harunaga Isaacson
Hamburg University
2020 Winter		 "Philosophy and Practice -The theoretical underpinnings of practice in late Indian tantric Buddhism-"
"Reading the Bodhicaryāvatāra"
"Public lecture: Metrics, Mantra and Madhyamaka: Aspects of the Buddhist Intellectual Culture of Vikramaśilā"

University Professor Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. John Taber
University of New Mexico
2019 Winter		 "Indian Buddhist Philosophy"
"Seminar: Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇaviniścaya"
"Seminar: Kumārila: Ślokavārttika, Śūnyavāda "

University Professor Course/Content
Hambrg University Prof. Steffen Döll
(Hamburg University)		 2019 Winter
"Lecture: Introduction to the Basics of Buddhism"
" Nichiren Buddhism"
"Master seminar: Buddhism and Language"

2020 Summer
"Lecture: Fundamentals of Japanese Studies. Religious traditions"
"Language course: An Introduction to Kanbun"
"Master seminar: Japanese Religious History. Historiographical and Methodological Issues"

2020 Winter
"Seminar: Basics of Japanese Studies –Japanese History"
"Master seminar: The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. Text, Hermeneutics, Philosophical Exegesis"
"Master seminar: Groundbreaking Contributions to Buddhist Studies"
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Numata Program in Buddhist Studies 2018

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United States of America

University Professor Course/Content
University of Califronia,
Berkeley		 Professor Seishi Karashima
Soka University		 “Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts.”
Public Lecture: Misinterpretations of Gandhari Buddhism by Sanskrit Composers of the Mahayama Scriptures”
Other syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Lecture:“Buddhist and Muslim Perspectives on the Contemporary Crisis in Myanmar”by John Clifford Holt,
Lecture:“Buddhist Painting, Painters and Performance” – Ronald M. Davidson
Lecture:“The Ritualistic Tradition of Buddhist Meditation following the Kammatthana Puran in Siam and Cambodia” by Olivier de Bernon
Workshpp:“Multilngual and Multimedia Translation in Qing China”
Lecture:“Thangkas, Texts and the Silk Route" by Ann Shaftel
Tang Lecture (Co-sponsored with Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
“Illustrations of the Parinirvana Cycle in Kucha" by Monika Zin
Lecture: Buddhist Textiles Along The Silk Road”by Mariachiara Gasparini
2018 Toshihide Numata book Award Presentation & Symposium
“Meaning in the World and in Texts: Thoughts on Buddhist Philosophy of Language"
Lecture: Presence and Memory: Commemorating the Buddha in Late Burmese Wall Paintings by Alexandra Greene
Co-sponsored by Tang Center
“The History and Science of Paper In Manuscripts of Central Asia”by Agnieszka Helman-Wazny
Lecture:“Is the Saiva Source of the Buddhist Herukabhidhana’s Treatment of Initiation pre-Tantric?" by Alexis Sanderson
Lecture:“From the Upper Indus to the East Coast of China: On the Origin of the Pictorial representation from the Lotus Sutra,”by Haiyan-Hu-von Hnuber
Lecture:“The Veda, Indian Grammarians and the Language of Early Buddhism”by Oskar van Hinuber
Lecture:“Chinese Animal Gods,”by Meir Shahar
Lecture:“American Sutra: Budhdism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II”by Duncan Williams

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Dr. Charles Hallisey
Havard University Divinity School		 Checking

University Professor Course/Content
University of Chicago Prof. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago 		"Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts"
"Indian Philosophy II: The Classical Traditions"

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard
Smith College		 “Buddhist Meditation”
“Zen Buddhism & Japanese Culture”

University Professor Course/Content
University pf Hawaii Prof. Jeff Wilson
Renison University College		 Buddhism in Hawaii and Beyond: Local Practices and Global Contexts”
Public Lectures:“Buddhism’s Business Matters: Marketing and Merit in North America”
“American Buddhism: Reinvention or Rediscovery?”

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of Buddhist Studies Prof. Richard K. Payne
Yehan Numata Professor of
Japanese Buddhism		 "Methods in the Study of Buddhism"
"Psychological Aspects of Buddhism"
Public Lecture: “Impure Land: Ethical Living for Evil" by Dr. Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

University Professor/Course/Content
University of California,
Los Angeles		 UCLA hosts Numata lectures and no regular classes:
Lecture:“Brides of the Buddha: Nuns’ Stories from the Avadanasataka”by Dr. Karen Muldoon-Hules
6th International Conference on Ganhwa Seon: Seon and Contemporary Society”
Lecture: "Korea Before Nationalism: Judging and Misjudging, the 1801 Silk Letter of Hwang Sayong" by Prof. Peter Baker,
Lecture: "Negotiating Religious Practices as a Woman in Bhutan” by Prof. Francoise Pommaret
Lecture:“Vegetarianism & Animal Ethics In Tibetan Buddhism” by Geoffrey Barstow
Lecture:“Atheism in Buddhism and Nietzsche as Challenges to the Philosophy of Religion”by Prof. Dale Wright

Canada

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 The University of Toronto hosts Numata Lectures and no regualr classes:
Lecture:“Embodying Buddhas, Quelling Demons: Theorizing Presence in Buddhist Studies”by Ryan Overbey
READING GROUP by Ryan Overbey :“The Prototantric Preacher"
Lecture:“An Invitation from The Guardian of the Earth: The Relationship Between Reincarnation, Sacred Geography and Nature on the Tibetan Plateau”by Ruth Gamble
READING GROUP by Ruth Gamble : “Landscapes from Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: Theorizing Presence in Buddhist Studies.
Lecture:“Participative Pedagogies In the Buddhist Studies Classroom” – Susan Andrew
READING GROUP by Susan Andrews :“Women at Northern Dynasties Mount Wutai.”

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Prof. Martin Seeger
University of Leeds		 "Women in Theravada Buddhism"

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Dr. Wendy Adamek
Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies		 Dr. Wendy Adamek, Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies, is on sabbatical for the 2018-2019 school year.
Lecture:“Divine Land, Demonic Seas: Another Look at Japanese Religion”by Prof. Bernard Faure
Lecture:“Beyond the Hype: Buddhism at the Risk of Neuroscience”by Prof. Bernard Faure
Presentations by Prof. Adamek:
“Variations on a Theme of Inversion: Nirvana as Permanance, Joy, Self and Purity” – Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religion, Columbia University
“Ethical Action through Ambiguity” in Existentialism and Kanhua Chan;” – UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies
“What Is Buddhist Practice, Anyway?” - Dharma Drum Vancouver Centre
“Exploring First- Personal Process in Researcher” – 4th Modern Chinese Buddhist Forum, Dharma Drum, Taiwan
The“Inversion" of Impermanence, Suffering and No-self” in the Nirvana Sutra: Why?” – Dharma Drum Vancouver Centre

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford 		Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
Univeristy of Oxford
May 2018-March 2019		 "Foundations of Buddhism (Buddhism I)"
"Buddhism in Space and Time (Buddhism II)"
"Chinese Buddhism"
"Buddhist Sanskrit"

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
May 2018-March 2019		 "Themes in Japanese Religions"
"East Asian Buddhist Thought"

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University Dr. Peter-Daniel Szanto "Sociography of the esoteric Buddhist sub-culture of medieval India"
"Literature of Mature Indian Esoteric Buddhism"
Public Lecture: "Introducing a Buddhist Preachers' Manual"

University Professor Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Dr. Jason Neelis
Wilfrid Laurier University
2018 Summer		 "Historical Patterns of Buddhist Transmissions"
“Avadāna, Jātaka, and other Rebirth Narrative Genres in Literary and Visual Cultures”
Prof. Dr. Seiji Kumagai
(Kyoto University)
2018 Winter		 “Buddhism and Society in Bhutan”
“Comparative Studies of Bonpo and Buddhist Abhidharma”
Colloquium :“Colloquium for advanced students in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies” (Master and PhD programs)

University Professor Course/Content
Hambrg University Prof. Steffen Döll
(Hamburg University)		 2018 Winter
"An Introduction to Kanbun"
"Texts of Amida Buddhism"
"Animals in Premodern Japanese Literature"
"Pure Lands, Hells, and realms of Rebirth"
2018 Summer
"Fumdamentals of Japanese Studies"
"Introduction to Basic Concepts in Religious Studies"
"Myoe"
"The Sango-shiki"
Lecture: "Exploring later Pali Texts" by Yukio Yamaka
Lecture: "Zen-Buddhism-Aspects of Violence and Peace" by Inken Prohl
Lecture: "Sport, Bodily Activities and Shoes: From India to China" by Ann Heirmann
Lecture: "Buddhism: What about the image of Peacefulness?" by Michael Zimmermann
Lecture: "Development in Buddhist Education and Archive building in Luang Prabang" by Khamvone Boulyaphonh

International and Interdisciplinary Cnference "Buddhism in Dialogue with Contemporary Societies"
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Numata Program in Buddhist Studies 2017

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United States of America

University Professor Course/Content
University of Califronia,
Berkeley		 Dr. Per jeld Sorensen
Leipzig University		 Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts (10 students)
Other syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Lecture: "Saving Mes Aynak: Filmscreening & Discussion," by Brent E. Huffman (55 attendees)
Lecture: "Through the Eyes of Another: Visions of Arhats in Song-Dynasty China," by Phillip E. Bloom (52attendees)
Lecture: "The Logic of Zen Koan, T. Griffith Foulk." by Sarah Lawrence (47 attendes)
Lcturre: "Buddhist Sectarianism in Burma's Last Kingdom," by Alexandra Kaloyanides (54 attendees)
Lecture: "The Crown Jewel of Our Realm: The Forgotten Story of Kunzang Choling, a Tibetan Buddhist Nunnery in Nepal, Charles Ramble," by Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (64 attendees)
Lecture: "Maritime Diffusion of Buddhist Philosophical Thought & Art," by Osmund Bopearachchi (71 attendance)
Lecture: "Buddhist Revelations in Mongolian Contemporary Art," by Uranchimeg Tsultem (40 attendees)
Lecture: "Why Does the Dalai Lama say 'He Is Son of Nalanda?'" by Robert Thurman (24 attendees)
Lecture: "40 Years of documenting Asian Art: From Alcor," by Jaroslav Poncar (63 attendees)
Lecture: "Buddhism and Divination In Tibet." by Brandon Dotsony (63 attendees)
Lecture: "The Merit of Word & Letters Sutra Recitation in Japanese Zen" by Erez Joshkovich (57 attendees)
Lecture: "From chan to Chan: Meditation and the Semiotics of Visionary Experience in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" by Eric Greene (58 attendees)
Lecture: "Migrants, Monks and Monasteries: Towards a History of South China Sea Buddhism," by Jack Meng-Tat Chia (62 attendees)
Lecture: "Meditation and Nonconceptual Awareness, Perspectives from Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science," by Evan Thompson (112 attendees)
Conference: "Mongolian Buddhism”(55 attendees)
Conference: "Conceptuality and Non-Conceptuality in Buddhist Thought” (85 attendees)
Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation & Symposium

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey
Havard University Divinity School		 Checking

University Professor Course/Content
University of Chicago Prof. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago 		"Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts" (1 student)
"Readings in Selected Buddhist Doctrinal writings in Tibetan" (1 student)

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard
Smith College		 "Introduction to Buddhist Thought,”(35 students)
"Well-being in Buddhist & Psychological Perspectives" (15 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University pf Hawaii Prof. Jeff Wilson
Renison University College		 “Seminar on Buddhism” (7 students)

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of Buddhist Studies Prof. Richard K. Payne
Yehan Numata Professor of
Japanese Buddhism		 "Esoteric Buddhism” (6 students)
"Terms, Texts & Translations" (11 students)
Lecture: Mass Meditation, by Dr. Erik Braun (30 attendees)
Lecture: Buddhism Beyond Borders" by Jessica Main and Mark Blum (60 attendees)

University Professor/Course/Content
University of California,
Los Angeles		 UCLA hosts Numata lectures and no regular classes:
"Numinous Awareness in Never Dark: The Korean Master Chinul's "Excepts" on Zen Practice." by Robert Buswell
"Feeling & Wonder on Buddhist Pathways" by Dr. Anne C. Klein,
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Pacification, Offering and Burial in Early Japanese Buddhism" by Akiko Walley
"Bhutan's Experience and Challenges with Democracy" by Sonam Kinga
"What is Buddhism when it is Practiced by Non-Buddhists?" by Charles Hallisey
Performing Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices (Graduate Conference on Religion)
Co-sponsored Colloquium:"Northern Thai Cremation Structures: Palaces, Mythical Birds and Visions of Heaven" by Rebecca Hall

Canada

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 The University of Toronto hosts Numata Lectures and no regualr classes:
Lecture: "Dreaming Dharma’s Decline: The Ten Dreams of King Krikinn and Other Prophetic Dream Texts" by Jonathan Silk (25 attendees)
Lecture: "The Meditating Mind: Image as Ritual In a Chinese Buddhist Cave-Shrine" by Phillip Bloom (75 attendees)
Lecture: "On the Modern Practice of Mandala Meditation" by Gudrun Buhnemann (17 attendees)
Lecture: "Out of Time, Mindfulness & Temporality in Theravada Asia" by Julia Cassaniti (13 attendees)
Lecture: "Imagined Networks: Esoteric Buddhism in the Dali Kingdom" by Megan Bryson (15 attendees)
Lecture: "Buddhism and Tibetan Imperial Law in Dunhuang," by Brandon Dotson (15 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Geoffrey Samuel
Cardiff University & University of Sydney		 "Buddhism and Healing: Medicine and the Science of Consciousness" (11 students)
Public Lecture: "Unbalanced Flows in the Subtle Body: Tibetan Understandings of Psychiatric Illness and How to Deal With It." (45 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Dr. Wendy Adamek
Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies		 Fall 2016:
"Buddhist Practice Tradition" (27 students)
Winter 2017:
"Advanced Studies in East Asian Traditions" (9 students)
Public Lecture: "The Word of the Feminine: The Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of Chod from Machik Labdron to Tsultrim Allione by Michelle Sorensen (25 attendees)
Public Lecture: "Recentering Buddhist Cosmology: Concepts of Geographic Space in Ritual and Art," by Eric Huntington (20 attendees)
Public Lecture: Precepts and Formlessness in the Evolving Chan Tradition" by Morten Schlutter (20 attendees)
Leslie Kawamura Memorial Lecture: "Paradigms of an ideal Monastery Advocated by Daoxuan: An Investigation into the Connection between Ximingsi in Chang'an and Daianji in Nara” by Dorothy Wong (30 attendees)

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford 		Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
Univeristy of Oxford
May 2017-March 2018		 "Buddhist Chinese" (5 studnets)
"Buddhist Sanskrit"（5 students）
"Early Buddhist Doctrine and Practice" (12 students)
"Chinese Buddhism" (20 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
May 2017-March 2018		 "Themes in Japanese Religions"（26 students）
"East Asian Buddhist Thought" (28 students)

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University Dr. Yukio Yamanaka "The History of the Buddhism in Thailand"
"Furthermore Buddhānusmrti to Nembutsu: A hitsory of Buddha
Contemplation across Asia."
Public Lecture: "Exploring later Pali texts from Southeast Asia."

University Professor Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Masahiro Shimoda
Tokyo University
2017 Summer		 "Reevaluating the significance of Mahāyāna sūtra literature in Buddhist studies with a focus on their methodologies”(10 students)
"Reading selected discourse of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-Sūtra in Mahāyāna”(4 studnets)
Colloquium :“The Colloquium for advanced students in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies”(4 students)
Prof. Dr. Zuzana Kubovčáková
(University of Bratislava, Slovakia)
2017 Winter		 "Introduction to Japanese Religions”(14 students)
"Japanese Buddhism in Context”(5 students)
"Japanese Buddhist Art and Architecture”(10 students)

University Professor
Hambrg University Syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
"Formation of Sinhala Buddhist Identity in Sri Lanka: From Violent Conflict into the Post War Era" by Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi
"Buddhism and Its Others Local Comparisons of Ritual and Religion in Upland Laos" by Guido Sprenger
"On the One Vehicle Thought of the Lotus Sutra" by Shiro Matsumoto
"Buddhism, Knowledge and Power" by Roger Casas
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies Ten Year Celebration by Susanne Rupp, Lambert Schmithausen,
Shoryu Katsura, Michael Zimmermann, Steffen Döll, and Jens-Uwe Hartmann

Workshop: The Vimalakīrti-sūtra by Marc Nürnberger & Steffen Döll
Workshop: Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives

The Tsukuba-Hamburg Universities Symposium Series: Buddhist Studies Young Scholars' Workshop 2018
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University Professor Course/Content
University of Califronia,
Berkeley		 Dr. Jowita Kramer
Ludwig-Maximilians University
April 2016-March 2017		 "Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts." (12 students)
Public Lecture: Conceptuality in Yogacara Thought.”(73 attendees)
Other syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Lecture: "Yogacara & Panpsychism”by Douglas Duckworth (45 attendees)
Lecture: "What Is the Value of a Life? A Tibetan Perspective" by Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro (120 attendees)
Lecture: "Amdo Lamas at the Center of Modern Conceptions of Tibet" by Gray Tuttle (58 attendes)
Lcturre: "Rise of Neo-Buddhist Visual Culture: Assertion, Alternative and Difference," by Y.S. Alone (38 attendees)
Lecture: "Failed Missions: Early 20th Century Searches for Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tibet" by Birgit Kellner. (51 attendees)
Lecture: "Khmer Saivism" by Alexis Sanderson (63 attendance)
Lecture: "The Wheel of Time: Tibetan Thoughts on the Buddha's Anno Nirvanae”by Leonard van der Kuijp (79 attendees)
Lecture: "Buddhist Mandalas & Narratives of Enlightenment" by Michelle C. Wang (52 attendees)
Lecture: "Queuing into the Afterlife: The Politics of Branding Buryat Buddhism" by Tatiana Chudakova (40 attendees)
Lecture: "Female Bodily Sacrifice and the Absence of Men: Filial Figuration in Song, Jin and Liao Tombs" by Winston Kyan (55 attendees)
Conference: "Thunder from the Steppes: New Perspectives on the Mongol Empire”(47 attendees)
Conference: "Conceptuality and Non-Conceptuality in Buddhist Thought” (85 attendees)
Conference: "Bodhisattva Precepts in East Asian Perspective and Beyond" (73 attendees)
Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation & Symposium: "Buddhist Bodies, Medical Bodies, Human Bodies"
Symposium in celebration of this year's award winner "Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellective History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet” by Janet Gyatso. (71 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey
Havard University Divinity School		 Summer 2016 (HarvardX Online MOOC course):
"Buddhism through its Scriptures”(10,000 students)
Fall 2016:
"Theravada Buddhism" (20 students)
"Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies & their Critical
Interpretations" (35 students)
"Reading Post-Canonical Pali I" (5 students)
Spring 2017:
"If We Are To Repair The World: An Introduction to the Study of Religion,
Ethics and Politics" (30 students)
"Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies & Their Critical
Interpretations" (5 students)
"Intermediate Pali" (5 students)
"Readings in Post-Canonical Pali II" (5 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of Chicago Prof. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago 		"Recent Work on Self and Non-Self in Indian Philosophy" (5 students)
"Indian Philosophy I”(14 students)
"Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts” (12 students)
"Third Year Tibetan 2" (1 student)

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard
Smith College		 "Introduction to Buddhist Thought,”(30 students)
"Well-being from Buddhist & Psychological Viewpoints," (15 students)

University Professor/Course/Content
University pf Hawaii No Program

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of Buddhist Studies Prof. Richard K. Payne
Yehan Numata Professor of
Japanese Buddhism		 Spring 2016: "Esoteric Buddhism” (7 students)
Fall 2016: "Methods in the Study of Buddhism & Psychological Aspects of Buddhism, I”(8 students)
Pacific Seminar: "Buddhism Beyond Borders” by Jessica Main & Mark Blum (60 attendees)

University Professor/Course/Content
University of California,
Los Angeles		 UCLA hosts Numata lectures and no regular classes:
"Beyond Mindfulness: Buddhism & Health in Global and Historical Perspective" by C. Pierce Salguero
"Conspicuous Dharma: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC" by John Osburg
"What Did It Mean to be Ordained as a Monk in Medieval Japanese Tendai?" by Paul Groner
"Numinous Awareness in Never Dark: The Korean Master Chinul's Excepts on Zen Practice" by Robert Buswell
"Bhutan's Experience and Challenges with Democracy" by Dr. Sonam Kinga,
"What is Buddhism when it is Practiced by Non-Buddhists?”by Charles Hallisey
Co-sponsored Symposium: "Cave Temples of Dunhuang: History, Art & Materiality."
"Co-sponsored Colloquium: "Northern Thai Cremation Structures: Palaces, Mythical Birds and Visions of Heaven”

Canada

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 The University of Toronto hosts Numata Lectures and no regualr classes:
Lecture: "Maritime Buddhism: The Spread of Buddhism from India to China" by Lewis Lancaster (56 attendees)
Lecture: "The Love of Fame and Desire for Enlightenment: Life of the Scholar Monk in Medieval Japan" by Asuka Sanga (49 attendees)
Lecture: "Crossing Meditative Imaginaries: Insight Practice and Mindfulness in Burma and America" by Erik Braun (18 attendees)
Lecture: "Paper and Leaves – Legacy of Indian Buddhists in Tibet and Tibetan Translators in India" by Kano Kazuo (18 attendees)
Lecture: "Pronouncing Praxis and Doing Doxography: Exploring The Functions of Genre in Early Tibetan Tantra" by Kammie Takahashi
Lecture: "Spirit Possession as Buddhist Vocation: Debates over Piety, Devotion and Charisma in Modern Thai Buddhism by Erick White

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Dr. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche Sherpa Fall Semester: "The Tensions and Teacings of Gampopa" (11 students)
Public Lecture: "Buddhist Social Action: Criticisms and Opportunities” (50 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Dr. Wendy Adamek
Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies		 Fall 2016:
"Introduction to Buddhism" (30 students)
"Buddhist Theories of Cognition" (6 students)
"Mahayana Buddhism"
"Tibetan Religions & Traditions"
Winter 2017:
"Zen Buddhism" (35 students)
"Asian Religions"
"Advanced Studies in Mahayana Buddhism"
Public Lecture: "Meditation in Context: From Ancient Buddhist Monastery to Modern Psychologist's Office" by David McMahan (20 attendees)
Public Lecture: "East is West and West is East, and Ever the Twain Do Meet: Global Buddhist Discourse in the Late 19th Century" by David Harding (25 attendees)
Public Lecture: Nirvana as Permanence, Self, Joy and Purity in a Medieval Chinese Buddhist Context” by Wendy Adamek (15 attendees)
Public Lecture: "The Diamond Sutra: How It Applies to Our Lives" by Ven. Changwu (35 attendees)
Public Lecture: "Emptiness and Violence: An Unexpected Encounter of Nagarjuna with Derrida and Levinas” by Chen-kuo Lin (20 attendees)
Public Lecture: "Vasubandhu's Theory of Memory: A Reading Based on the Chinese Commentaries" by Chen-kuo Lin (25 attendees)
Conference: "Making Connections: Contemporary Approaches to the Tang Dynasty”(100 attendees)

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford 		Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
Univeristy of Oxford
May 2016-March 2017		 "Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Seminar"（5 studnets）
"Buddhist Chinese" (5 studnets)
"Buddhist Sanskrit"（5 students）
"Early Buddhist Doctrine and Practice" (12 students)
"Buddhism in History and Society" (17 students)
"Chinese Buddhism" (5 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
May 2016-March 2017		 "Japanese Buddhism"（28 students）
"East Asian Buddhist Thought" (16 students)
"Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and Believers" (17 students)
"Japanese Buddhist Philosophy" (66 students)
"Ritual and Japanese Buddhism" (52 students)
Public Lecture: "Almost Famous: Dainichi Nonin and Early Zen" by Vincent Breugem
Public Lecture: "Fukan Habian: A Japanese Christian Convert on the Offensive in 1605" by Richard Bowring
Public Lecture:; "Gender, Rotual, and Needlecraft in Early Modern Japan" by Christine Guth
Public Lecture: "Foreign Astrology in Disguise: Amoghavajra's Xiu yaojing and its Sources" by Bill Mak
Public Lecture: "Enacting Antiquity in 20th-century Japan" by Chiara Ghidini

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University Prof. Dr. Helmut Tauscher
University of Wienna		 "Buddhism Past and Present in the Western Himalaya"
"Madhymaka school of philosophy"
Public Lecture: ""In search of Buddhist Western Tibet: Palaces,
monasteries and manuscripts in Lahul, Ladakh and Zangska."
Conference: " Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra 2.204-205 in the context of Kanjur research."

University Professor Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Hong Luo
China Tibetology
2016 Summer		 Seminars
"Ratnākaraśānti on Madhyamaka" (3 students)
"Ratnākaraśānti on the Buddha Bodies. A close reading of the Eighth Chapter of the Abhisamayālaṅkārakārikāvŗttiśuddhimatī"(4 students)
"Is Ratnākaraśānti a gZhan stong pa? -Through the lens of Tāranātha”(3 students)
Prof. Dr. Elliot Sperling
University of Bloomington
2016 Winter		 Lecture: "Tibet and the Non-Tibetan World”(30 studnets)
Seminar: "Mi-dbang rtogs-brjod (the biography of Mi-dbang Pho-lha Bsod-nams stob-rgyas)”(2 students)
Course: "Colloquium in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies" (2 students)

University Professor
Hambrg University Syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Pub;lic Lecture: "Christianity and the Refashioning of Theravada Buddhsim in Nineteenth-Century Siam" by Sven Trakulhun
Four-Part-Lecture Series: Buddhist Perspectives on Eating and Drinking
1. "Meat consumption and vegetarianism in Idian Buddhism" by Lambert Schmithausen
2. "The Consumption of Forbidden Food in Chinese Buddhism" by Ann Heirman
3. "Consuming Japaneseness in the Tea Room. Between the ordinary and Extra-ordinary" by Kristin Surak
4. "Killing ban and meat consumption in Japan" by Klaus Vollmer
Public Lecture: "How to read Xuanzang's ''Record" Some thoughts on the general description of India" by Max Deeg
Four-Part-Lecture Series: Mindfulness: Critical view of a trend
1. "Mindfulness and self-sufficiency: Acriticism from a socio-political perspective" by Hartmut Rosa
2. "Is Mindfulness good for everyone? New Research results" by Ulrich Ott
3. "Mindfulness-an elementary culture technique? For an education discourse about mindfulenss" by Irina Spiegel
4. "Mindfulness in Buddhism: Origins of MBSR practice."
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University Professor Course/Content
University of Califronia,
Berkeley		 Dr. Jan Nattier
April 2015-March 2016		 "Mahaprajapati Gautami in Buddhist Literature" (18 students)
Public Lecture: "Gender and Awakening: Sexual transformation in Mahayana Sutras" (80 attendees)
Other syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Lecture: "Mulling over Mantras: Views from Stpry Literature & Philosophers" by Phylis Granoff (60 attendees)
Lecture: "Stories of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals: Examples from the Shasekishu" by Koichi Shinohara (64 attendees)
Lecture: "The Buddha's Golden Footsteps & Burmese National Identity" by Don Stadtner (20 attendees)
Lcturre: "Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept: Atale of Five Commentaries" by Jay Garfield (55 attendees)
Lecture: "Southern Asian Buddhist Kingship in Trans-Regional Perspective, 1200-1500" by Anne Blackburn (43 attendees)
Lecture: "Biographies of the Buddha: a Socially Engaged Approach" by Mahesh A. Deokar (40 attendees)
Lecture: "Buddhism and Indian Lexicography" (21 attendees)
Lecture: "Buddhist Relics in Western Eyes: The Ongoing Saga of the Piprahwa Finds" by John Strong (50 attendees)
Lecture: "A Preliminary Report on Two Sanskrit Texts of the Astamivratakatha" by Diwakar Acharya (45 attendees)
Lecture: "Buddhist Stairways to Heaven" by Stephen Jenkins (33 attendees)
Lecture: "The Garbhavakrantisutra: A Buddhist Sutra on Conception, Gestation and Birth" by Robert Kritzer (45 attendees)
Numata Lecture: "Contradictions in Textual Narrations and Confusion in Visual Art: Revisiting the Seven Weeks after the Englightenment of the Buddha" by Osmund Bopearachchi (63 attendees)
Numata Lecture: "Gender and Awakening: Sexual Transformation in Mahayana Sutras" by Jan Nattier
Conference (Co-sponsored by BDK America): "When Modernity Hits Hard: Redefining Buddhism in Meiji-Taisho-Early Showa Japan"
Workshop: "Nirvana Sutra Workshop" Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley and University of Tokyo (45 attendees)
Toshihide Numata Book Award Presentation & Symposium (100 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey
Havard University Divinity School		 Fall 2015: On Leave
Spring 2016: "Engaging a Buddhist Scripture: The Lotus Sutra" (25 students)
"Studying Buddhist Thought Contextually" (20 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of Chicago Prof. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago 		"Recent Work on Self and Non-Self in Indian Philosophy" (5 students)
"Reading in Tibetan Buddhist Texts" (5 students)

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard
Smith College		 "Sites & Sights: A Pilgrim's Guide to Buddhism in Pre-Modern Japan" (14 students)
"Problems in Buddhist Thought: Enlightenment" (16 students)

University Professor/Course/Content
University pf Hawaii No Program

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of Buddhist Studies Prof. Richard K. Payne
Yehan Numata Professor of
Japanese Buddhism		 Fall 2015 "Indian Buddhist Philosophy" (3 students)
Spring 2016 "Esoteric Buddhism" (5 students)
Public Lectures: "Maritime Transmissions of Buddhism" (20 attendees)
Sponsored the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies Conference: "Subjectivity in Pure Land Buddhism."

University Professor/Course/Content
University of California,
Los Angeles		 UCLA hosts Numata lectures and no regular classes:
"Ritual in Shifting Space: Monastery Layout of the Three Kingdoms" by Youn-mi Kim (30 attendees)
"Daoist Terms in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations? A Reappraisal" by Jan Nattier (25 attendees)
"Broken Bodies: The Death of Buddhist Icons and their Changing Ontology in the 10th-12 Century China" by Wei-cheng Lin (30 attendees)
"Bridging the Gap: Zongmi's Strategies for Reconciling Textual Study and Meditation Practice" by Peter Gregory (25 attendees)
"The Introduction of Mindfulness Program to the Korean National Army Forces" by Chaplain Major Kitae (30 attendees)
"The Glorious Death of the First Buddhist Nun: The Final nirmava of Mahaprajapati" by Jan Nattier (30 attendees)
"Sailors, Merchants, Migrants and Monks: Colonial Tavoy's Mobile and Cosmopolitan Buddhism" by Alicia Towers (35 sttendees)
"How King Dhammaceti Handled His Sima Case" by Jason Carbine (30 attendees)
"Buddhism, Science and Human" by Janet Gyatso (25 attendees)
"Beyond Mindfulness: Buddhism & Health in Global and Hitorical Perspective" by C. Pierce Salguero (45 attendees)
"Conspicuous Dharma: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC" by John Osburg (30 attendees)
"What Did It Mean to BE Ordained As a Monk IN Medieval Japanese Tendai" by Paul Groner (35 attendees)
Workshop: "Special Workshop on Japanese Buddhism" by Ryoshu Okubo, Kenryo Minowa, and Satoshi Sonehara

Canada

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 The University of Toronto hosts Numata Lectures and no regualr classes:
Lecture: "Constructing Indian Identity in Medieval China" by Stuart Young (18 attendees)
Lecture: "Preventive Morality and Last Resort Buddhist Devotion in Chinese Medieval Apocrypha" by Constantino Moretti (13 attendees)
Lecture: "An Indigenous Buddhist Theory of Gender" by Jose Cabezon (16 attendees)
Lecture: "Sthiramati as Author and Commentator" by Jowita Kramer (25 attendees)
Lecture: "Soka Gakkai: Buddhism and Romanic Heroism" by Levi McLaughlin (10 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Dr. Andre Van der Braak
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam		 Fall 2015: "Buddhism and Globlization" (10 students)
Public Lecture: "Buddhism in the Immanent Frame: Charles Taylor and Buddhism in the West." (60 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Professor Wendi Adamek was appointed to the Numata Chair position as of January1, 2014.
On Sabbatical 2015-2016
Dr. James Apple
Dr. Chien-yuan Hsu
Fall 2015
: "Introduction to Buddhism" (29 students)
: "Buddhism in East Asia" (34 students)
: "Esoteric Buddhism" (27 students)
: "Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature" (21 students)

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford 		Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
Univeristy of Oxford
May 2015-March 2015		 "Advanced Readings in Buddhist Chinese"（5 studnets）
"Set Texts in Buddhist Chinese" (4 studnets)
"Readings in Buddhist Sanskrit"（7 students）
"Early Buddhist Doctrine and Practice"（10 students）
"Buddhism in History and Society" (15 students)
"History of the Chinese Buddhist Canon" (5 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
April 2014-August 2015		 "Japanese Buddhism"（31 students）
"East Asian Buddhist Thought" (7 students)
"Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and Believers" (12 students)
Workshop: "The Life of the Buddha" (42 students)
Workshop: "Just Buddhistss?" (45 students)
Seminar: Tendai Buddhism by Prof. Ryoshun Okubo (14 students)

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University No Program

University Professor Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Kazuo Kano
Koyasan University
Prof. Hong Luo
China Tibetology
2015 Summer		 Seminars
"The Hermeneutics of Mahayana Texts."(2 students)
"Analyzing and Translation of Buddhist Literature." (4 students)
"Tibetan and Buddhist Literature, History and Culture." (2 students)
Prof. Diwakar Acharya
Kyoto University
2015 Winter		 Lecture: "Negation in the Philosophical Theories and Spiritual Methods of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies" (50 students)
Seminar: "Philology and Methods of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies." (3 students)
Reading: "Advanced Reading into the Subhasitasamgraha."(2 students)

University Professor Course/Content
Hambrg University Prof. Mattia Salvini
Mahidol University		 "Reading in Madhyamaka" (10 students)
"Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy"(12 students)
Emeritus Prof. Carl Beilefeldt
Stanford University
2014-15 Spring		 "The Lotus Sutra" (5 students)
"Readings in Shobogenzo" (7 students)
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University Professor Course/Content
University of California,
Berkeley		 Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi,
National Center for Scientific Research
January-May 2015		 Seminar in Buddhist Studies: "Art and Archaeology ofBuddhism,"(15 students)
Public Lecture: "Contradictions in Textual Narrations and Confusion in Visual Art: Revisiting the Seven Weeks after the Enlightenment of the Buddha."
Other syposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Workshop: "New Perspectives in Dunhuang Studies" (75 attendees)
Colloquium Series: "Early Indian Mahayana: Thought & Questins" by Peter Skilling (64 attendees)
Conference: "Buddhism, Mind and Cognitive Science" (120 attendees)
Colloquium Series: "New Discoveries in Sogdian Art & Culture from Central Asia to China by Matteo Compareti (70 attendess)
Colloqium Series: "Tibet in the 1930's: The Emergence of Buddhist Modernism" by Jann M. Ronis (45 attendees)
Colloquium Series: "A Gesar Bard's Tale"-Filem Screening (82 attendees)
Colloquium Series: "The Meditation-Trdadition of Interpreting the Maitreya-Works:Taking Yogacara and Buddha-Nature as a Basis of Mahamudra Pith Instructions" by Klaus-Dieter Mathes (63 attendees)
IEAS Brwnbag Series: "Power and Compassion: Negotiating Religion and State in Tenth Century Tibet" by Jacob Dalton (83 attendees)
Toshihide Numata Book Prize 2014 Symposium & Award Ceremony: "Buddhist Modernisms" (80 attendees)
Colloquium Series: "A Previous Lifetime of the Buddha: the Lao Ramayana at Vat Oub Mong and Vat kang Tha, and Vat Keng" by Alan Potkin (66 attendees)
Khyentse Lecture: "Creative Buddhas, Gnosticism, and Pure lands in Tibet: The Great Perfection Seminal Heart Tradition from the Unimpeded Sound Tantra to Longchenpa" by David Germano (110 attendees)
Lecture: "Transactional Reality and the Regimes of Truth" by Sarah McClintock (73 attendees)
Co-sponsored conference with Ryukoku Universitu and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, "The Sixth International Ryukoku Symposium on Buddhism and Japanese Culture."

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey
Havard University Divinity School		 Spring 2014: "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" (70 students)
"Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and their Critical Interpretations (25 students)
Fall 2014: "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" (140 studnets)
"Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthlogies and their Critical Interpretations" (27 studnets)
Spring 2015: "Buddhist Ethics" (45 studnets)
"Introduction to Buddhist Narrrative and Story Literature" (23 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of Chicago Prof. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago		 "Indian Philosophy 2" (7 students)
"Reading in Buddhist Texts" (3 students)
Public Lecture: "Merits of the Book: Buddhist Manuscript Traditions Across Asia" (35 students)

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard
Smith College		 Fall 2014: "Politics of Enlightenment" (21 studnets)
Spring 2015: "Well-Being from Buddhist and Pyscholgical Perspectives" (15 students)
Public Lecture: "Buddhsim and Happiness Indstry" (65 attendees)
"First Taitetsu Unno Lecture:" by Rev. Patti Nakai (60 attendees)

University Professor/Course/Content
University of Hawaii Program Director Michel Mohr is on sabbatical this year.

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of Buddhist Studies Prof. Richard K. Payne
Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism		 Fall 2014: "Methods in Study of Buddhism" (8 students)
Spring 2015: "Psychological Aspects of Buddhism 1: Foundations in Buddhist Psychological Thought" (5 students)
Public Lectures: "Narrative in Buddhist texts, Practice and Transmission" by Dr. Charles hallisey and Dr. Richard Payne (30 attendees)
Public Lecture: "Arising of Faith in the Human Body" by Dr. Takahiko Kameyama (25 attendees)

University Professor/Course/Content
University of California,
Los Angeles		 UCLA hosts Numata lectures and no regular classes:
"Relations of Early Buddhism in Northeast South Asia with Buddhism in Areas of Burma" by Arlo Griffiths (30 attendees)
"Introducing the late Imperial primer Literacy Sieve, A Digital Tool, with examples from Mind Stels for Shrines to Living Officials" by Sarah Schneewind (50 attebdees)
"Tang Women in the Transformation of Buddhist Filiality" by Ping Yao (50 attendess)
"Buddhsit Kingship in Early Tibet: The legal Edicts of Lha Lama Yeshe O" by Jacob Dalton (30 attendees)
"Dharma Kings and Queens in Tibet" by Jann Ronis (40 attendees)
"Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy" by Venerable Khenpo SoDargy Rinpoche (100 attendees)
"Pymnyun Sumin" by Jungto Society of Korea (120 attendees)
"Theravada Nuns: Monastic Nuns and Lived Realities" by ute Husken (20 attendees)
"Virtual Reality in Archiving, Interpreting, and Replicating South and Southeast Asian Buddhist Art forms, Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Sites" by Alan Potkin (30 sttendees)
"Constructing a Deity, a Cult, and a Mountain: Mt. Togakushi and the Case of the Nine-headed Dragon" by Caleb Carter (40 attendees)
Annual UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference (50 attendees)
"Buddhist Music, Rituals, and Founder Worship: The Develoment of Koshiki in the Soto School" by Michaela Mross (20 attendees)
"Cmposing the Cosmos: Prayer, Poetics and Cosmology in Ancient Japan" by Bryab Lowe (30 attendees)

Canada

University Professor Course/Content
The University of Toronto hosts Numata Lectures and no regualr classes:
University of
Toronto		 Lecture: "Of Monks & Embryos: Tantric Practices and the Realization if Buddhist Embryology in Medieval Japan"by Lucia Dolce (16 attendees)
Reading Group: "Taimitsu Rituals in Medieval Japan: Sectarian Competition and the Dynamics of Tantric Perfomance" by Lucia Dolce(12 participants)
Lecture: "Magic and Modernity: Modes of Tibetan Buddhist Power and their Interpretations" by Annabella Pitkin (13 attendees)
Reading Group: "The Age of Faith and the Age of Knowledge: Secularism, Devotion and Modern Tibetan Miracle Narratives" by Annabella Pitkin (18 attendees)
Lecture: "Orphan texts: Making Sense of Genre Anomlies in Lama Zhang" by Carl Yamamoto (12 attendees)
Reading Group: "Mastering Space, Time, Symbol: Lama Zhang and the Buddhist Hegemonization of Cetral Tibet" by Carl Yamamoto (18 attendees)
Lecture: "Chiasmus Methodology for Buddhist Textual Studies" by Shi Huifeng (22 attendees)
Reading Group: "Literary Paralleisms. Connecting Criticism and Hermeneutics in an Early Mahayana Sutra by Shi Huifeng (29 attendees)
Lecture: "Self-ordination in an Indian Monastic Code" by Vincent Tournier (13 attendees)
Reading Gropu: "The Mahavastu and the Vinayapitaka of the Mahasamghika-Lokottaravadin" by Vincent Tournier (16 attendees)
Lecture: "Materiality Matters: Touching our Way Through East Asian Esoteric Buddhsim" by Dominic Steavu(15 attendees)
Reading Group: "Buddhist Medicine and the Affairs of the heart" by Dominic Steavu (15 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Prof. Burkhard Scherer
Canterbury Christ Church University		 Fall 2014 Issues in Buddhist Studies (6 students)
Public Lecture: "Variant dharma: Buddhist Queers, queered Buddhisms" (30 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Professor Wendi Adamek was appointed to the Numata Chair position as of January1, 2014.
Professor Chien-yuan Hsu also taought in the Buddhist Studies Department.
Prof. Wendi Adamek Fall 2014: "Early Buddhism" (20 students)
Winter 2015: "Advanced Buddhism" (12 students)
Prof. Chien-yuan Hsu Winter 2015: "Mahayana Buddhism" (25 students)
Public Lectures:
"A Poet's Repertoire in Early Medieval China" by Wendy Swartz (25 attendees)
"Variant Dharma, Buddhist Queers, Queered Buddhism" by Burkhard Scherer (70 attendees)
Annual Leslie Kawamura Memorial Lecture "The Study of Buddhist Tantra State of the Art" by Richard Payne
"Strategies in Studying the Homa: Ritual Studies, History, Syntax."

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford 		Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
Univeristy of Oxford
April 2014-March 2015		 "Introduction of Buddhist Chinese"（8 studnets）
"Set Texts in Buddhist Chinese" (4 studnets)
"Early Buddhist Doctrine and Practice"（18 students）
"Buddhsim in History and Society"（20 students）
Readings in Buddhist Sanskrit (4 studnets)
Readings in Buddhist Chinese (5 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
April 2013-August 2014		 "History of Art and Archaeology"（33 students）
"Religions of Asia and Africa" (33 students)
"Chinese Studies" (21 students)
"East Asian Buddhist Thought" (29 students)
"Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and Believers" (30 studnets)

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University No Program

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Vienna		 Prof. Akira Saito
University of Tokyo
2014 Summer		 "History of Indian Madhyamaka" (44 students)
Seminar: "CandraKirti's Prasannapada-An Analysis of Translation Techniques" (7 students)
Emeritus Prof. Tom Tillemans
University of Lausanne		 "Analyzing and Translating Buddhist Canonical Literature on Reincarnation" (4 students)
"Methodological Issues in Translating Leiterature in Tibetan" (8 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 Prof. Mattia Salvini
Mahidol University
2014-2015 Winter		 "Reading in Madhyamaka" (10 students)
"Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy"(12 students)
Emeritus Prof. Carl Beilefeldt
Stanford University
2014-15 Spring		 "The Lotus Sutra" (5 students)
"Readings in Shobogenzo" (7 students)
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University Professor Course / Content
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Prof. Evan Thompson University of British Columbia January-May 2014 Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts: "Buddhist Philosophy, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science: Assessing the Dialogue." (20 students) Public Lecture: "Buddhism and Cognitive Science: How Can the Dialogue Move Forward?" (80 people)
Other symposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
"From Seal to Consort and Back Again: The Shifting Significance of the Term Mudra in Esoteric Buddhist Literature" by David B. Gray, Santa Clara University (60 attendees)
"On the Western Study of Yogacara Buddhism" by Alberto Todeschini (55 attendees)
"The Self As A Process: Ramakantha's Middle Ground Between Brahmanical Eternalism and Buddhist Momentariness" by Alex Watson, Harvard University (52 attendees)
"The Uttaratantra Commentaries in 13th Century Tibet" by Tsering Wangchuk, University of San Francisco (49 attendees)
"The Interpretation of the Past in Modern Chinese Buddhism" by John Kieschick, Stanford University (57 attendees)
"Shakyamuni Returns to Lumbini: A Popular Theme in Newar Buddhist Art and Literature" by Gurdrun Buhnemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison (45 attendees)
"A Study of Jainism: A Symposium in Honor of Prof. Padmanabh Jaini" (70 attendees)
"Daoist Vocabulary in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations? A Reappraisal" by Jan Nattier (59 attendees)
"Toshihide Numata Book Prize Presentation & Symposium" by Award Recepient Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago Divinity School (90 attendees)
"Expressions of the Inexpressible: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism" by Robert Buswell, UCLA and Donald Lopez, University of Michigan (60 attendees)
"Why Birds are Fish and Fish are Birds: Glimpses of an Archaic Tibetan Cosmology" by Charles Ramble, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (51 attendees)
"Enacting Buddhism: Perspectives on Cambodian Buddhist Paintings" Panel Discussion (45 attendees)
"The ABCs of Emptiness: the Buddhist Abecedary in the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dharani Scripture" by Ryan Overbey, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (44 attendees)
"The Buddhist Site of Mes Aynak, Afghanistan" by Zemaryalai Tarzi, Strasbourg University (47 attendees)
"A Hiatus in the History of Chinese Buddhist Translation: What Happened in the Second Half of the Fifty Century?" by Toru Funayama, Visiting Professor, Stanford University (45 attendees)
"Some Questions as to the Nature of Your Existence"- Video Installation- Screening and Discussion with directors Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (45 attendees)
"The Evolution of Tantric Ritual" - academic conference (90 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey
Havard University Divinity School 		Spring 2013: "Introduction to Buddhist Narrative and Story Literature," (25 students), "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" (55 students)

Fall 2013: "Introduction to Buddhist Scriptures and their Critical　Interpretations" (31 students), "Modern Buddhism and Fiction" (19 students)

Spring 2014: "Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and their Critical Interpretations" (27 students), "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" (45 students), "Comparative Religious Ethics" (32 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Chicago		 Prof. Matthew Kapstein
University of Chicago
January 6-March 22, 2014 		"Jainism: An Indian Religion and Its Contribution to Philosophy" (7 students), "Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts" (4 students)

University Professor Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard In lieu of the two courses which Professor Jamie Hubbard would normally teach, the Religion Department offered two courses in Buddhist Studies taught by visiting faculty during the Spring semester. Seminar: "Problems in Buddhist Thought" taught by Andrew Olendzki (9 students)
"Buddhism Along the Silk Road" taught by Rick Tapier (20 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Hawaii		 Dr. Elisabetta Porcu
University of Liepzig
January-June 2013		 University of Hawaii Lectures:
"Japanese Religions, Popular Culture and the Media"
"New Religious Movement & Popular Culture"
"Japanese Religions on the Internet"

Public lectures (co-sponsored with Hongwanji Buddhist Study Center):
"Pure land Buddhism and Art in Modern Japan"
"Japanese Buddhism & the Media" (on Maui)
"Japanese Buddhism & Media" (on island of Hawaii)

University Professor Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist StudiesInstitute of
Buddhist Studies		 Prof. Richard K. Payne Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism
Spring 2014 		"Esoteric Buddhism" (7 students)
Other symposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
Symposium: "Narrative in Buddhist Texts, Practice and Transmission"- Charles Hallisey (Harvard), Richard Payne (IBS), Michael Nichols (St. Josephs College, Indiana), Scott Mitchell (IBS), David Matsumoto (IBS)

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 No lectures were held in the Spring 2013 quarter
Other symposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
"Archaeology, Buddhism and Avant-garde: A Symposium Celebrating Donald McCallum's Engagement with Japanese Art" (120 attendees)
"Religion, Political Identities and Sacred Symbols in East Asia" (60 attendees)
"Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Book Launch" (50 attendees)
"Writings of Tao Hongjing" by Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University (40 attendees)
"Classical Mindfulness Conference" (60 attendees)
"The Queen and the Monk: How Colonialism Sparked the Global Insight Meditation" by Eric Braun, University of Oklahoma (30 attendees)
California Buddhist Studies Graduate Conference held at University of California, Santa Barbara

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Reading Group: "The Bird in the Corner of the Picture. Some Problems with the Use of Buddhist Texts to Study the Buddhist Ornamental Art of Thailand" by Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania (17 attendees)
"Architects of Buddhist Leisure" by Justin McDaniel (12 attendees)
"The Quest for the Historical Buddha and the Path to Enlightenment" by Rupert Gerhin, Bristol University (32 attendees)
Reading Group: "The Good, the Bad and the Undetermined: Reflections on the Theravada, Sarvastivada and Yogacara Listing of Dharmas" by Rupert Gethin (14 attendees)
Reading Group: "The Sacred Origins of the Svayambhupurana at the Shrine of Santipur and their Origins with Pratapa Malla" by Alexander vonRospatt, UC Berkeley (16 attendees)
"Reflections on the Coexistence of Buddhist and Hindu Traditions in the Historical Nepal: The Case of the Old Age Rituals among the Newars" by Alexander vonRospatt (11 attendees)
"Reflections on an Enigmatic Structure at Nalanda and Visual Eclecticism in the Buddhist Art of Medieval Bihar and Bengal" by Nicolas Morrissey, University of Georgia (17 attendees)
Reading Group: "On the Cult of the Lotus Sutra in India: A New Interpretation of a 5th Century Painting from Ajanta" by Nicolas Morrissey (14 attendees)
"More Alive Than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cultural Politics in Buddhist Siberia" by Anya Bernstein, Harvard University (20 attendees)
Reading Group: "Buddhist Body Politics: Life, Death and Reincarnation in Transnational Eurasia" by Anya Bernstein (8 attendees)

University Professor Course/Content
McGill University Prof. Roger R. Jackson
Carleton College
Fall 2013 Semester 		"Opening the Great Seal: Mahamudra in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism" (8 students)

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Professor Wendi Adamek was appointed to the Numata Chair position as of January1, 2014 and taught one class in "East Asian Buddhism" during the winter semester 2014.
Numata Program Lectures given by Anne Carolyn Klein and Rigzin Drolma
"Nine Vehicles, One Path: Short Takes from Jigme Lingpa and Longchen Rabjam" (20 attendees)
"Vision, Song and Self Contemplative Practice in Western and Tibetan Landscapes" (40 attendees)
In coming Chair Lecture by Wendi Adamek:
"The Agency of Relations at Baoshan"
Special lecture by Wendi Adamek:
"The Intersection of What Is It Like? And How Much of It Is There? at Baoshan delivered at the Intersection of Buddhist Art and Texts" held at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

United Kigdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University Professor Course/Content
University of
Oxford		 Prof. Stefano Zacchetti
University of Oxford
April 2013-March 2014 		"Introduction of Buddhist Chinese"（8 students）
"Chinese Buddhism"（30 students）
"Early Buddhist Doctrine and Practice"（20 students）
"Buddhism in History and Society"（25 students）
Readings in Buddhist Sanskrit (6 students)
Readings in Buddhist Chinese (4 students)

University Professor Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Lucia Dolce
University of London
April 2013-March 2014 		"East Asian Buddhist Thought"（30 students）
"Religious Practice in Japan" (33 students)
Other symposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
International workshop: "Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems"
Lecture: "Japanese Buddhists and Twentieth-Century Imperialism" by John loBreglio
Lecture: "The Forgotten First London Buddhism Mission, 1889-1982: Charles J W Pfoundes and the Kaigai Senkyo" by Brian Bocking (University College Cork)
International workshop with Kenryo, Emanuele Davide Giglio, Okada Fumihiro, Tatsuuma Padoan: "Intersectarian Relations in Medieval Japan: New Findings in the Study of Buddhist Sources."
International workshop with Silvio Vita, Frederic Girard, Claudio Caniglia, Alexandra Curvelo, Angelo Cattaneo, Daniele Frison: "Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647)
Lecture: "The Development of an Idea in the Context of Empire (1880s-1940s)" by Orion Klautau (Ruprech-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg)

Europe

University Professor Course/Content
Leiden University Prof. Luis O. Gomez
University of Michigan		 Prof. Dr. Luis O. Gomez was unable in the end to take up the post, due to a set-back in his health condition

University Professor Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Carmen Meinert University of Bochum 2013 Summer "Developments of Buddhism in China"（100 students） Pro Seminar: "Transfer of Tantric Buddhism from Inner Asia to Beijing Seminar: "Buddhism in Inner Asia against the backdrop of Tibetan Dunhang Manuscripts"

University Professor Course/Content
Hamburg University Prof. Steffen Doll
Japan Center Munich University
2013 Summer		 "Causality, Cessation, Compassion. Buddhist Conceptions of Karma" (15 students)
"Transmission beyond the teachings or unity of praxis and doctrine?" On the history and historiography of Zen Buddhism. (21 students)
In July 2013, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies was established at Hamburg University.
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University Visiting Professor (University) / Contents
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Prof. Musashi Tachikawa (Aichi Gakuin University)
"Seminar n Buddhism & Buddhist Texts"
Public Lecture: "The Buddhas of the Kathmandhu Valley"
Other symposiums and lectures sponsored by Numata Endowment Fund:
"Healing Texts, Healing Practies, Healing Bodies: A workshop on Medicine and Buddhism"
"A 2nd Century BCE Shipwreck and the role of the bodhisattva as the Protector of Mariners"- Osmund Bopearachchi
"Creative Destruction: An Environmental History of Buddhist Asia"- Johan Elverskog
"Shamans, Buddhists and Muslim Saints: The Layered History of the Desert Mazar"
"The Life and ongs of a Mad Yogin"- Stefan Larsson
"Buddhist Nuns? The Workings of Initiation Rituals and Normative Texts in their Historical and Local Contested"- Ute Husken
"Contemporary Conversations between Buddhism and Science"- David E. Presti
"Buddhism, Becker and Social Violence: Toward a Buddhist Critical Social Theory"- William Waldron
"Letters of Advice for a Buddhist Queen of Tibet: Female Empowerment, Tantric Statecraft and Contested Reputations"- Jan Ronis
"From Buddhist Monasteries and Meditation to Mental Hospitals and MRIs"- James Robson
"Images, Conventions and Significance: Reading Buddhist images from Gandhara"- Juhyung Rhi

University Professor/Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey (Harvard University)
"Introduction to Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies"
"Moral Anthropology: Buddhist Insights"
"Introduction to Buddhist Narrative & Story Literature"
"Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion"
Public Lecture: "Levinas in the Light of Shinran"(presented at Ryukoku University)
Public Lecture: "Close Voices from Far Away: Japanese Buddhism and Continental Philosophy"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Chicago		 Prof. Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"Indian Philosophy"
"Yogacara in the Indian Hilosophical Tradition"
"Advanced Tibetan"

University Professor/Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard (Smith College)
"Happiness:Well-being from Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives"
"Seminar in Buddhist Thought: Enlightenment"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hawaii		 Prof. Elisabetta Porcu (University of Liepzig)
"Japanese Religions, Popular Culture and the Media"
"New Religious Movements and Popular Culture in Japan"
"Japanese Religions on the Internet"
Public Lecture: "Shin Buddhism and Modern Media"
Public Lecture: "Pure land Buddhism and Art in Modern Japan"
Public Lecture: "Japanese Buddhism and the Media"

University Professor/Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist Studies		 Prof. Richard K. Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies)
"Organizations & Institutions: Efficacious Buddhist Practice in Communities and Groups"
"Methods in the Study of Buddism"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 Numata Lecture Series:
Prof. James Benn (McMaster University)
"Problems in the Study of Later Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha"
Prof. Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)
"Restoring Historicity to Shinto: The Case of Ise"
Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
"A 2nd Cetury BC Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean and the role of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as the Protector of Mariners"
"The Buddha Shakyamuni and the Courtesan Utpalavarna in Gandharan Buddhist Art"
Venerable Subul Sunim
"Zen Meditation for Today: A New Approach by a Modern Korean Master"
Prof. Mark Rowe (McMaster University)
"Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism"
Prof. Akira Nishimura (Kagoshima University)
"Pacification of the Dead Spirits, Inspiration for the Living:
The Relation of the Violent Structure of Japanese Society to the Commemoration for the War Dead"
Prof. Katherine Bowie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"The Politics of Humor: A Historical Perspective of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand"
Prof. George Keyworth (University of Saskatchewan)
"Rediscovering Chinese Scholatic Chan in Edo Japan"
Prof. Morten Schlutter (University of Iowa)
"The Turbulent Life if the Platform SUtra"
Co-sponsored university event:
"Day of Mindfulness" hosted by Deer Park Monastery (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Co-sponsored Conference:
"The Tibetan World Order: The Nature of Historical Political and Spiritual Relations Among Asian Plotics and Leaders within and in Relation to the Tibetan Buddhist World"
"2012 International Joint Conference on Korean Buddhism"
"UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World"

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Numata Lecture Series:
Prof. Shaman Hatley (Concordia University)
"Between Buddhism and Shaivism: The Figure of the Yogini in the Tantric Traditions of Meieval India"
Prof. Mathew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"Buddhist Idealism in a Jaina Perspective"
Prof. Robert Campany (Vanderbilt University)
"The Incredible Vanishing Religion: Gimmers of Buddhist Imagination from Early Medieval China"
Prof. Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Universite de Lausanne)
"Texts and Masters on the Road: From Magadha to Termez,back and forth, and beyond"
Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University)
"The Multiple Meanings and Uses of Tbetan Sacred Dance: Cham in Context"
Prof. Lori Meeks (University of Southern California)
"A 'Wondrous Gift' for Women? The Blood Bowl Sutra in Buddhist Commentaries from Early Modern Japan"

University Professor/Course/Content
McGill University Professor Jin. Y. Park (American University)
"Issues in Buddhist Studies: Korean Buddhism"
Additional events in conjunction with Dr. Park’s presence called “Focus on Korean Buddhism:”
Prof. Hwansoo Kim (Duke University)
"Politics of Representation: Two Avatars of Buddhism in Colonial Korea (1920-1945)"
Showing of film “The Little Monk (Tongseung) directed by Joo Kyung-jung.
Prof. Jin. Y. Park (American University)
"Ethics of Tension: A Buddhist Postmodern Ethical Paradigm"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Numata Lecture Series: Prof. Gregory Schopen (UCLA)
"On the Fragrance of the Buddha, thescent of Monuments, and the odor of Images"
The Leslie S. Kawamura Memorial Lecture:
Prof. Gregory Schopen (UCLA)
"Debt, Slavery and Monasticism: The Limited Reach of Formal Doctrine in Buddhist and Christian Monastic Settings"

United Kigdom of Great Britain

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Oxford		 Prof. Stefano Zacchetti (University of Oxford)
"Introduction to Buddhist Chinese"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
London		 No Report

Europe

University Professor/Course/Content
Leiden University Prof. Meiji Yamada (Emeritus Professor, Ryukoku University)
"Buddhism and the Sakas: Nomads of Central Asia in Greek, Persian, Indian and Chinese Sources"
Public Lecture: "The way of Tea, the Way of the Buddha"
Public Lecture: "The transformatin of Buddhism across Central Asia from Indi to China"

University Professor/Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Tom Tillemans (University of Lausanne)
"Indo-Tibetan Buddhsim as Philosophy"
Reading class: "Readings in the Lam rim chen mo of Tsong Kha pa"
Seminar: "Colloquium in Buddhist studies"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 Prof. Luis Gomez (Emeritus Professor, Michigan University)
"Paradises as Belief and Narrative"
Reading class: "The Bodhicaryavatara and Theory and Practice of Translating Indian Buddhist Texts"
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University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Prof. Stefano Zacchetti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
"Early Chinese Buddhist Commentaries"
Public Lecture: "Early Chinese Buddhsim through the eyse of Liang Historians"

University Professor/Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey, appointed Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard in 2010.
"Buddhist Ethics"
"Introduction to Buddhist Commentaries and their Critical Interpretations"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Chicago		 Prof. Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"Contemporary Theory in the Study of Religion-Reading Buddhist Texts"

University Professor/Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard (Smith College)
"Happiness: Buddhist and Psychological Understanding of Well-being"
"Sites and Sights: A Pilgrim's Guide to Buddhsim in Pre-modern Japan"
Public Lecture: "Neurobiological Icchantika? Thoughts on Buddhism and the Happiness Industry"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hawaii		 No Program for the 2011-2012 school year

University Professor/Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist Studies		 Prof. Richard K. Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies)
"Topics in Buddhist Thought: Epistemology and Language"
Public Lecture by Prof. Lori Meeks (University of Southern California)
"Making Sense of the Blood Bowl Sutra: Gender, Pollution and Salvation in Buddhist Sermons from Early Modern Japan"
Public Lecture by Prof. Dale Wright (Occidental College)
"Karmic Mindfulness: Rethinking Morality in Contemporary Buddhism"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 Numata Lecture Series:
Prof. John Mock (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"The red Buddha Hall Road Revisited: Tibet, China and their Struggle for the Silk Road through the Pamir"
Prof. Qingquan Li (Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts)
"Buddhism and Liao Dynasty Tombs at Xuanhua"
Prof. Natasha Heller (UCLA)
"Buddhist Recitation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Prof. Mario Pocesk (University of Florida)
"Literary Remaking and Historical Transformation of the Religious Persona(s) of Chan Teacher Mazu Daoyi"
Prof. Hames Benn (McMaster University)
"Problems in the Study of Latter Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha"

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Numata Lecture Series:
Prof. Michelle Wang (Georgetown University)
"Reflections of the Garbhadhatu Mandala at Dunhuang"
Reading Group: "Changing Conceptions of Mandala in Tang China: Ritual, Image-Making and Limits of Visual Representation"
Prof. Pierce Salguero (Penn State)
"Chinese Buddhist Medicine: Global and Local Perspectives on a Tradition of Religious Healing"
Reading Group: "Narrating Buddhist Healing: Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China"
Prof. Toru Funayama (Kyoto University)
"Mahayana Vinaya? Aspirations for the Composition of a Vinaya for bodhisattvas in India and China"
Reading Group: "Kamalasila's View on Yogic Perception"
Prof. Collett Cox (University of Washington)
"Brittle Birch Bark Speaks: The Earliest Buddhist Manuscripts of Ancient Gandhara"
Reading Group: "Yogacara Prehistory in a Gandhari Scholastic Text"
Prof. Lara Braitstein (McGill University)
"Conventional Truth and Symbolic Terms in Saraha's Song"
Reading Group: "Rdo ring pa's Rnam thar and the limits of Reading History from Autobiography"
Prof. Johannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne University)
"Rethinking of Ancient Gandhara"
Reading Group: "Who is a Brahmin? Some questions linked to the spread of Brahmansm"

University Professor/Course/Content
McGill University Prof. Martin Adam (University of Victoria)
"Ethics in Early Buddhism"
Public Lecture: "Consequences of Consequentialism: Reflections on Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Ethics."

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Numata Lecture Series:
Prof. Collett Cox (University of Washington)
"Beginning at the Beginning: Research on the oldest Surviving Buddhist Manuscripts"
Prof. Jonathan Silk (Liden University)
"What Can Students of Indian Buddhism Learn from Biblical Text Criticism?"
"Toward a Meaningful Academic Study of Buddhism"
HH the Skaya Trizin (Shakya School of Tibetan Buddhsim) "The Virtue of Compassion in Difficult Times"
Prof. Chen-kuo Lin (Chengchi University)
"Understanding Buddhist Epistemology in Medieval China"

United Kigdom of Great Britain

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Oxford		 No Program for the 2011-2012 school year

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Nicola Tannenbaum (Lehigh University)
"Anthropology, ethnography, and the study of Theravada Buddhism with an emphasis on Thailand"

Europe

University Professor/Course/Content
Leiden University Prof. Vincent Eltschinger (Austrian Academy of Science)
"Apologetic Dimensions of Late Indian Buddhist Philosophy"
Public Lecture: "Carrying the Load: Philological and Doctrinal Remarks on the Bhāraharsutra"
Reading class: "Selected passages from Śāntaraksita's and Kamalaśīla's critique of the self in the Tattvasamgraha, Chapter7"

University Professor/Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. John Taber (University of New Mexico)
"Dharmakīrti and his Brahmin Interlocutors"
Reading class: "Nāgārjuna's Vigrahavyāvartanī"
Seminar: "Dharmakīrti's Critique of Universals"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 Prof. Francesco Sferra (Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale)
"The Early History of the Kālacakra school"
Reading class: "Vajragarbha's Commentary on the Hevajratantra"
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University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Prof. Jens-Uwe Hartmann (University of Munich)
"Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts"
Public Lecture: "Between India, Rome, and China: Buddhism in Gandhara"

University Professor/Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Charles Hallisey, appointed Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard in 2010.
Prof. Hallisey took his sabbatical leave in 2010-2011.

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Chicago		 Prof. Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"Introductin to the Study of Tibetan Religion"
"Readings in Buddhist Philosophical Texts"
""Indian Philosophy"

University Professor/Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard (Smith College)
Prof. Hubbard taught in Japan for the 2010-2011 school term at the Smith College Associated Kyoto Program at Doshisha University

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hawaii		 No Program for the 2010-2011 school year

University Professor/Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist Studies		 Prof. Richard K. Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies)
"Topics in Buddhist Traditions of Japan"
Prof. Jacob Dalton （UC Berkeley）
"How Dharani were Proto-tantric: Ritual Uses of Buddhist Spells in Dunhuang and Beyond"
Prof. Kenneth Lee （California State University, Northridge）
"Shinran's Devotional Hymn of Prince Shotoku: Kotaishi Shotoku Hosan"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 Prof. Christoph Anderl （Institute of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages）
"The Chan Database Project"
Prof. Christian Luczanits（UC Berkeley）
"Inconceivably Remote Future Accesible Now: The Bodhisattva and Future Buddha Maitreya during the Kusana Period"
Prof. Robert Campany （Universirty of Southern California）
"Signs from the Unseen Realm: A Collection of Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China"
Prof. Griffith Foulk （Sarah Lawrence College）
"Zen and Architecture of Funeral Buddhism"

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Prof. Natasha Heller (UCLA)
"How to be a Buddhist Recluse in the Yuan Dynasty"
Prof. Anne Monius (Harvard University)
"With No One to Bind Action and Agent: The Fate of Buddhists as Religious "other" in Tamil Literature"
Prof. Todd Lewis (College of the Holy Cross)
"Sources and Sentiments in Sugata Surabha"
Prof. Albert Welter (University of Winnipeg)
"The Buddhist School of Principle and the Intellectual Climate of Song Dynasty China"
Prof. Charlence Makley (Reed College)
"Spectacular Compassion: Natural Disaster and National Mourning in China's Tibet"
Prof. Christian Wedemeyer (University of Chicago)
"The Trouble with Tribals: Indian Esoteric Buddhism and Fantasies of the Primitive"

University Professor/Course/Content
McGill University Prof. Dorji Wangchuk (University of Hamburg)
"Buddhist Tantric Scriptures in Tibet: Perception and Reception"
Public Lecture: "Towards a Buddhist Philosophy of Dialogue and Iterreligious Dialogue"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 Prof. Leslie Kawamura (University of Calgary)
"Studies in Eastern Religions: Themes and Comparison"
Public Lecture: "Mahayana Buddhist Rituals and Methods of Coded Phrases"

United Kigdom of Great Britain

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Oxford		 Prof. Vesna A. Wallace (University of Oxford)
"Teachings and Practices of Early Buddhism."
"Buddhism in History and Society"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Tadeusz Skorupski (University of London)
"Perceptions of Buddhism."

Europe

University Professor/Course/Content
Leiden University Prof. Toru Funayama (Insitute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University)
"Holy Monks in China and India through Buddhist Eyes"
Public Lecture: "Calling Onself a Saint: Self-designation and the Idea of the Holy in Medieval Chinese Buddhism"
Reading class: "Praying to be born in the Tusita Heaven: Xuanzang and others"

University Professor/Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Vincent Eltschinger (Austrian Academy of Siences)
"Self in Buddhism"
Seminar: Pudgalavada in Mahayanasūtramkara

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 Prof. Imre Hamar (Eӧtvӧs-Loránd University)
"The Development of Buddhist Doctorin in China"
Reading class: "Huayan Buddhism"
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University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Prof. Christian Luczanits (Lumbini International Research Institute)
Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts: "Tibetan Buddhist Art"
Public Lecture: "Inconceivably Remote Future Accessible Now: The Bodhisattva and Future Buddha Maitreya during the Kusana Period."

University Professor/Course/Content
Harvard University Prof. Shrikant Bahulkar (Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies)
"The Kalacakra Tantra"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Chicago		 Prof. Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"Introductin to the Study of Tibetan Religion"
"Readings in Buddhist Philosophical Texts"
"Seminar: Buddha Nature"

University Professor/Course/Content
Smith College Prof. Jamie Hubbard (Smith College)
"Happiness: Buddhist and Psychological Understanding of Personal Well-being"
"Problems in Buddhist Thought: Enlightenment"
Public Lecture: "A Scholar's Encounter With Contemporary Japanese Buddhism"
An international conference on "Buddhism in Contemporary Mongolia"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hawaii		 No Program for the 2009-2010 school year

University Professor/Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist Studies		 Prof. Richard K. Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies)
"Doctorial class on the Study of Religion"
"Pacific World" Journal, Third Series. No. 9 was pulished
Prof. Steve Jenkins （Wagner College）
Numata Lecture: "Compassionate Violence, Torture and warfare in the Bodhisattva Ideal."
Prof. Daniel Veidlinger （California State University, Chico）
Numata Lecture: "Changing Roles of the Written Word in Theravada Buddhism."

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 Prof. Luis Gomez （University of Michigan）
"The Atthakavagga Reconsidered: Between Wisdom and Dispassion."
Prof. Andrew Quintman （Yale University）
"Life Writing as Literary Relic: Image, Inscription and Consecretion in Tibetan Biography."
Prof. Hwansoo Kim （Duke University）
"Korean Buddhism Betrayed?: The Korean Wonjong's Attempted Alliance with the Japanese Sotoshu in 1910"
Prof. Shoji Yamada （International Research Center for Japanese Studies）
"Shots In The Dark: Japan, Zen and the West"
Prof. Melanie Malzahn
"Tocharian 100 Years after its Decipherment"
Prof. Rhi Juhyung（Seoul National University）
"Exploring Visual Types of Ghandaran Buddha Images: Its Ramifications"
Prof. Ryan Bongseok Joo（Hampshire College）
"Countercurrents from the West: Blue-Eyed Zen Masters, Vipassana Meditation and Buddhist Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea."
Prof. Lewis Lancaster（UC Berkeley, Emeritus Professor）
"Visualization of Pattern Recognition from the Korean Buddhist Texts: Computation Hu,manities."

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Prof. Jin Hua Chen (University of British Columbia)
"In What Sense can On Speak of an Esoteric Tradition in Tang China?"
Prof. Michael Como (Columbia University)
"Scandalous Monks and Healing Lineages in Ancient Japan."
Prof. Christian Luczanits (University of Wien)
"Inconceivably Remote Future Accessible Now the Bodhisattva and Future Buddha Maitreya during the Kusana Period."
Prof. Hiroko Kawanami (University of Lancaster)
"The Charisma of an Arahant and Moral Power of Buddhist Monks: in the case of Myanmar."
Prof. Will Tuladhar-Douglas (University of Aberdeen)
"On Why It Is Good To Have Many Names: the many identities of a Nepalese God."
Prof. Alexis Sanderson (Oxford University)
"The Influence of Savism on Late Pala Buddhism."
Prof. Naresh Man Bajracharya (Tribhuvan University)
"An Introduction to the Newar Buddhist Dasakarma Ritual."
Prof. Alicia Turner (York University)
"Intentionality, Performance and Identity: the Zediyingana Footwear Debates in Colonial Burma"
Prof. Allan Grapard (UC Santa Barbara)
"What Is a Three-Dimensional Mountain Mandala?"

University Professor/Course/Content
McGill University Prof. Hiroko Kawanami (University of Lancaster)
"Buddhism in Southeast Asia: Sangha and State."
"Buddhism in Context: Social Justice and Political Action in Myanmar."
2009 Numata Conference: "Buddhism and Islam: Encounters, Histories, Dialogue and Representation."

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 No program in 2009-2010 school year:
(Dr. Leslie Kawamura appointed full time Numata Chair professor in July 2008)

United Kigdom of Great Britain

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Oxford		 Prof. Vesna A. Wallace (University of Oxford)
"Teachings and Practices of Early Buddhism."
"Buddhism in History and Society"
Inaugural lecture: "When a Buddhja Becomes a Mongol"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Michael Pye (University of Marburg)
"Perceptions of Buddhism."

Europe

University Professor/Course/Content
Leiden University Prof. Richard P. Hayes (University of New Mexico)
"The Philosophical Questions to Ask about Buddhism."
Reading in the texts: "Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings."

University Professor/Course/Content
Vienna University Prof. Michael Hanhn (Marburg University)
"Buddhism in India: Poetic and Moral Literature."
Reading in the texts: "Golden light Sutra."

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 No Program for the 2009-2010 school year
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University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Professor James Robson (Harvard University)
“Chiese Buddhist Text in the Context of Chinese Religion”
Public Lecture: "Searching for a Better Return:
Preparatory Cultivating and the Economy of Salvation in East Asian Buddhism"

University Professor/Course/Content
Harvard University Professor Funayama Toru (Kyoto University, Institute for Reserch in Humanities)
"Saintliness in Chinese and Indian Buddhism"
"Public lecture in Buddhist Studies Forun on March 31, 2009"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Chicago		 Professor Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"The Buddha in Barcelona"
"Reading in Buddhist Philosophical texts"
"Contemporary Theory of the Study of Religion"

University Professor/Course/Content
Smith College Professor Jamie Hubbard (Smith College)
"Happiness 501: Well Being from Buddhist & Western Psychological Viewpoints"
"Japanese Buddhism in the Contemporary World"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hawaii		 No program in 2008-2009 year.

University Professor/Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist Studies		 Professor Richard K. Payne (Insitute of Buddhist Studies)
“Issues in the Study of Religion”
Published book honoring Professor Roger Corless with Numata Center

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 Co-ssponsored with Terusaki Center for Japanese Studies and UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies
“Recent Dvelopment in Buddhist Art”
Professor James Robson (Harvard University)
“Asian Images Inside-Out: What Can We Learn from the Context of East Asian Statues?”
Professor Imre Hamar (Eotvos Lorand University)
"Interpretation of Yogacara philosophy in Huayun Buddhism"
Professor Kate Crosby (London University SOAS)
"Theravada, But Not As We Know It: Forgotten Tantric in Theravada Buddhism"
Professor Donald Lopez (University of Michigan)
"Buddism & Science: A Guide for the Perplexed"

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Professor Dina Bangdel (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Reading Group: "Art in the Ritual Context: The Chakrasamvara Tradition in Newar Buddhism"
Lecture: "The Iconology of Newar Buddhism: Manifestations of a Buddhist Cosmology"
Professor Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Lecture: "Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road"
Reading Group: "Buddhist-Muslim Interaction in the 9th-12 Centuries"
Professor Nicolas Sihle (University of Virginia)
Lecture: "The Lingering Question of the Structure of the Religious Field: Comments on the Project of a Comparative Anthropology of Buddhism"
Reading Group: "Written Texts at the Juncture of the Local and the Global: Some Anthropological Considerations on a Local Corpus of Tantric Ritual Manuals"
Professor Antonio Terrone (Leiden University)
Professor Sarah Jacoby (Columbia University)
Reading Group: "To be or Not to be Celibate: Morality and Consort Practices According to the Treasure Revealer Se ra mkha' gro's (1892-1940)"
Professor Sarah Jacoby (Columbia University)
Lecture : "Love Revelations and the Life of an Early Twenieth-Century Tibetan Female Visionary"
Professor Antonio Terrone (Leiden University)
Lecture: "All You Need is a Laptop: the Tibetan Resource Center and its Digital Technology in the Field of Tibetan Studies"
Professor Ronald M. Davidson (Fairfield University)
Lecture: "The Transition from Mahayana Ritual to the Beginnings of Buddhist Tantrism"
Reading Group: "Studies in Dharani Literature"

University Professor/Course/Content
McGill University Professor Miriam Levering (University of Tennessee)
"Development of Linji Chan from the Tang to the Present"
Lecture: "Why Does Avalokitesvara Need A Thousand Arms and Eyes? Making a Place for Guanyin in Chan and Zen Buddhism"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Calgary		 No program in 2008-09 year
(Dr. Leslie Kawamura appointed full time Numata Chair professor in July 2008)

United Kigdom of Great Britain

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Oxford
・Hilary Term		 Professor Samten Karmay (University of Paris)
"A new discovery of ancient Bon manuscripts from a Buddhist stupa in Southern Tibet"
Professor Tsuguhito Takeuchi (Kobe University)
"Problems and Progress in Old Tibetan Studies"
"Post-imperial Old Tibetan Texts in the 10th century and Thereafter"
Professor Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University)
"Historical Notes on the Jnana Tradition of the Secret Union Tantra: Buddhajnana and Sman zhabs"
Professor Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago)
"On the 'logic According to the Genuine Disciurses' attributed to the Tibetan monarch Khri Srong-lde-btsan"
Professor Henk Blezer (Leiden University)
"Narrating the Center of Bon: Narrating Bon out of the Center"
University of
Oxford
・Trinity Term		 Professor Harunaga Isaacson (University of Hamburg)
"Words of the Yoginis: Reflections on the textual History of the Buddhist Yoginitantras"
Professor Deborah Klimburg-Salter (Vienna University)
"Imaging the world of Yeshes'od: Buddhist art of the 10th century"
Professor Jonathan Silk (Leiden University)
"What Can Students of Indian Buddhist Literature learn from Biblical text Critism?"
Professor Peter Verhagen (Leiden University)
"Some Observation on the Early History of Translating in Tibet"
Professor Christopher Beckwith (Indiana University)
"The Central Eurasian Culture Complex and the Tibetan Empire"
"The Introduction of Sarvastivadin Buddhist Scholasticism into Tibet"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
London		 Professor Johannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne University)
"Buddhism in Its Indian Context"

Europe

University Professor/Course/Content
Leiden University Professor Andrew Glass (University of Washington)
Lecture: "The Buddhism of Gandhara and the Northwest of India"
Seminar: "The Recently discovered documents and inscriptions of Gandhara and the Northwest of India"
Public Lecture: "Early adopters: Buddhist Attitudes to Technology"

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 Professor Jacob Dalton (Yele University)
Lecture: "Developments in Early Tantric Ritual"
Seminar: "Tibetan Sadhanas from Dunhuang"
Professor Helwing Schmidt-Glintzer (The director of the Herzog August Bibliothek)
Reading: "Texts on Chinese Buddhism"
Professor Louis Gabaude (Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient in Chiang Mai)
Lecture: "Evolution of Contemporary Buddhist Imagery in Thailand"
Seminar: "Contemporary Thai Buddhist texts on Buddhism and Modernity"

University Professor/Course/Content
Vienna University Professor Vincent Eltschinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Lecture: "Religionsphilosophische Themen bei den buddhistischen Erkenntnistheoretikenm"
Reading: "Sansknit Texts accompanying the lecture"
Reading: "Ausgewatte Abschnitte aus dem Mahakarmavibhanga"
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University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Berkeley		 Professor Rupert Gethin (University of Bristol)
“The Word of the Buddha or Disputations of his Disciples?”

University Professor/Course/Content
University of Chicago Professor Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago & Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France)
The 2007-08 year course will be taught from April-June 2008 and will be reported next year.

University Professor/Course/Content
Smith College Professor Jamie Hubbard (Smith College)
Japanese Buddhism: Pre－modern through 19th Century
Politics of Enlightenment?

University Professor/Course/Content
Institute of
Buddhist Studies		 Professor Will Tuladhar－Douglas (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
“Avalokitesvara Is Everybody. Disguise As Skillful Means in Sanskrit Mahayana”
Professor Charles D. Otzech (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
“Esoteric Buddhism during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)”
Professor Leslie Kawamura (University of Calgary)
“The Importance of Self in Buddhism”
Professor David Gardiner (Colorado College)
“Transcendence of the Body in Kukai’s Shingon Buddhism”
Professor Taigen Dan Leighton (Graduate Theological Union)
“Dogen & the Lotus Sutra: the Mahayana Worldview of Zen”
Professor Takanori Sugioka (Ryukoku University)
“Metaphors in Shinran”
Professor David Gray (Santa Clara University)
“Sex and the Construction of Social Identity in Tantric Buddhist Ritual”
Professor Hideki Matsuoka (Shukutoku University)
“A Japanese Religion in Brazilian Religious Milieu: How Brazilians Have Accepted the Church of World Messianity”
Professor Caroline Hirasawa (University of British Columbia)
“Forbidden Landscapes: Negotiating Sacred Space at Tateyama”
Professor Carl Bielefeldt (Stanford University)
“The Mountains & Water Sutra”

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
California,
Los Angeles		 Professor Jason Carbine (Whittiet College)
“The Shwegyin Religious World: Continuity, Rupture and Political Change in Myanmar”
Professor Rupert Gethin (University of Bristol)
“The word of the Buddha or the Disputations of his Disciples? The Buddhist Path as Presented in the Pali Nikayas”

Canada

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Toronto		 Professor Jose Cabezon (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“The Transformation of Buddhist Studies: Consequences for Graduate Education”
“Whither Buddhist Studies? A Workshop on Buddhist Studies Doctoral Education in North America”
Professor Max Deeg (Cardiff University)
“The Places Where Siddhartha Trod: Lumbini & Kapilavastu”
“The Buddha and the Nagas”
Professor Kurtis Schaeffer (University of Virginia)
“The Biographer's Art in Tibet”
“Mapping the Life of the Fifth Dalai Lama”
Professor Juliane Schober (Arizona State University)
“Myanmar Today: Understanding Contemporary Burumese Buddhism & Politics”
Professor Jerg Schendel (University of Heidelberg)
“Sluggish Motion, Erratic Surges: The Actors and Forces Behind Burma's Political Process”
Professor David Drewes (University of Manitoba)
“Preaching in Early Indian Mahayana Buddhism”
Professor Vesna Wallace (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Why is the Absolute Gnostic Body still Called the Body?”
“Text as Deities: Mongols' Rituals of Worshipping Sutras and Rituals of Accomplishing various Goals by Means of Sutras”
Professor Andy Quintman (Princeton University)
“Toward a Biographical Culture in Tibet”
Professor Richard Salomon (University of Washington)
“An Unwieldy Canon: Observations on Some Distinctive Features of Canon Formation in Buddhism”
“Gandharan Buddhist Manuscripts and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

University Professor/Course/Content
McGill University Professor Joel Tatelman (Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada)
“Theravada Buddhist Literature”

United Kigdom of Great Britain

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Oxford		 Prof. Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford)
Lecture: “Introduction to Buddhism Ⅰ and Ⅱ”
Conference: “Biographies in the Buddhist traditions” and “Lives Lived-Lives Imagined. Biography in the Buddhist Traditions.”
Reading: “Buddhist literlature in the original language”

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
London		 Prof. Nobumi Iyanaga
Under the Shadow of the Great Shiva: Tantric Buddhism and its Influence on Japanese Medieval Culture

Europe

University Professor/Course/Content
University of
Hamburg		 Professor Francesco Sferra (Univerity of Naples)
Lecture: “Buddhist Theories on Language and Verbal Knowledge: Examine the Study of the Doctrine of 'exclusion'”
Seminar: “The First Bhavanakrama by Kamalasila: Critical reading of the original Sanskrit of the First Bhavanakrama by Kamalasila and establishing a new edition of the text”
Professor Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (The director of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)
Reading: “Texts on Chinese Buddhism: Interpretation and Translation of 'Linji lu'”

University Professor/Course/Content
Vienna University Professor Ngawang Jorden (Chicago University)
Lecture: “Tibetan Buddhism Monasticism: A survey of monastic tradtions in Tibets, their organazations and educatinal stuctures and Functions”
Seminar: “Elucidation of the Sage's Intention: Hermeneutical tradtion Tibetan interpretations of the Indian Buddhist heritage”
Reading: “Eloquently Explained Tenets of Schools”
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