The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies in cooperation with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies offers an e-learning course of Bhikkhu Anālayo on the Nibbana Sermons by K. Nyananda (1 to 11) during the summer semester of 2017. Participation is free of charge but requires online registration...
The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies in cooperation with Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts offers an e-learning course on the topic of Asian Buddhist Women. The course consists of a series of lectures by a group of international scholars who will present their research on the situation of...
In July 2015, the Numata Chair of Japanese Buddhism was established at the Asien-Afrika-Institut of Hamburg University. Steffen Döll has been appointed to the position, officially beginning his work on October 1, 2015. His research focuses on Japanese intellectual history, especially medieval...
Dr. Mattia Salvini had most of his higher education in India (RKM Vivekānanda College, Chennai), and studied Buddhist texts with Prof.Rāṁśaṅkar Tripāṭhī (Sarnath). He obtained his PhD from SOAS, London, with a dissertation entitled ‘Conventions and Agency in the Philosophies of the Mahāyāna.’...
The Numata Visiting Professor for the Winter Semester 2013/14 will be Dr. Michael Radich, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A New Zealander by birth, he was educated at Auckland University in composition, music analysis and Asian Studies...
On July 11, 2013, the Center for Buddhist Studies was officially renamed the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies. The Center will now bear the name of Rev. Toshihide Numata, President of the Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (仏教伝道協会) in Tokyo, Japan. The Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK) aims at promoting Buddhism...
The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies is pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Mario Poceski to the University of Hamburg. Professor Poceski, an associate professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida (Gainesville, USA), was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship...
Beginning in the Winter Semester 2013/14, the International Masters Program in Buddhist Studies will be offering another area of specialization: Thai Buddhism. This track will allow students with proficient language skills in Thai to specialize in Thai Buddhism. This is the fifth Buddhist...
