To further support the advancement of Buddhist studies in the western world, BDK established the "Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism" in 2009. The Award contest is coordinated by the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the winning entry for best academic Buddhist title of the year is selected by an independent committee. The "Toshi Award" consists of a cash award, a public lecture by the winning author and a panel discussion on the topic of the winning entry, held in Berkeley each year after the winning entry is announced.
For further information, please view UC Berkeley's Center for Buddhist Studies website at https://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/buddhist-studies/toshihide-numata-book-award-cbs/
The 2020 Toshi Award
Awardee: | Roger R. Jackson（Carleton College） |
Book Title: | Mind Seeing Mind: Mahamudra and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism |
Special Lecture in Japan (Ryukoku University) |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaviI7JVgiU
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The 2019 Toshi Award
The 2018 Toshi Award
The 2017 Toshi Award
Awardee: | Dr. Jacqueline I. Stone |
Book Title: | Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan |
Special Lecture in Japan (Ryukoku University) |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_GB8KiSneo
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The 2016 Toshi Award
Awardee: | Dr. Janet Gyatso (Harvard University) |
Book Title: | Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet |
Special Lecture in Japan (Ryukoku University) |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5cu2_blUdQ
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The 2015 Toshi Award
Awardees: | Dr. Lothar Ledderose (Heidelberg University) |
| Prof. Sun Hua (Peking University) |
Book Title: | Buddhist Stone Sutras in China, Sichuan Province, Volume 1 |
Special Lecture in Japan (Ryukoku University) |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkkScnXsRoE
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The 2014 Toshi Award
Awardee: | Dr. Erik Braun (University of Oklahoma) |
Book Title: | The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw. |
Special Lecture in Japan (Tokyo University) |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro-xG4B-ofY
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Awardee: | Dr. John K. Nelson (Sanfrancisco University) |
Book Title: | Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan |
The 2013 Toshi Award
Awardee: | Dr. Daniel Arnold (Chicago University) |
Book Title: | Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problems of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind.
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※Japan Special Lecture is available.
Tokyo University
Ryukoku University
The 2011 Toshi Award
Awardees: | Dr. Todd Lewis (College of the Holy Cross) |
| Prof. Subarna Man Tuladhar |
Book Title: | Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya |
The 2010 Toshi Award
Awardee: | Dr. James Robson (Harvard University) |
Book Title: | Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) in Medieval China. |
