Numata Professorship for Buddhist Studies

In 1999, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, a Japanese foundation that supports Buddhist activities and Buddhist Studies, honored Hamburg Buddhist Studies by establishing an annual Numata Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies. This endowment enables the University of Hamburg to invite experts in the field of Buddhist Studies from all over the world to teach and conduct research at the Asia- Africa Institute. Thus far, the program has supported the following eminent scholars.

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Summer Term 2008: Prof. Dr. Jacob Dalton (Berkeley, USA), a specialist of early Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan manuscripts of the Dunghuang collection.

Winter Term 2008/09: Prof. Dr. Louis Gabaude, a specialist on Southeast Asian Buddhism with focus on literary, iconographical and social themes.

Summer Term 2010: Prof. Dr. Imre Hamar, Institute of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), a specialist on Chinese Buddhism.

Winter Term 2011/12: Prof. Dr. Francesco Sferra, Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale.