Full-Time Faculty

• Lara Braitstein
  Associate Professor, Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
• Victor Hori
  Associate Professor, Japanese Religions
• Andrea Marion Pinkney Assistant Professor, South Asian Religions

  (from July 2013)

• Arvind Sharma
  Birks Professor in Comparative Religion
• Davesh Soneji
  Associate Professor, South Asian Religions

The Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies

In 1999, the Numata Foundation of Canada, otherwise known as BDK Canada, generously awarded a major 20-year grant to the Faculty of Religious Studies of McGill University. In addition to establishing an accumulating fund which will eventually fund a chair in Buddhist Studies, the grant allows the Asian Religions Area to annually host a visiting professor in Buddhist Studies for a term. The Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies offers a graduate seminar and also gives a public lecture.

Past Numata Professors

• 2011-12 Dr. Martin Adam
  University of Victoria
  Buddhist Ethics
• 2010-11 Dr. Dorji Wangchuk
  University of Hamburg
  Tibetology
• 2009-10 Dr. Hiroko Kawanami
  Lancaster University
  South-East Asian Buddhism
• 2008-09 Dr. Miriam Levering
  University of Tennessee
  Chinese Chan Buddhism
• 2007-08 Dr. Joel Tatelman
  SSHRC Scholar
  Theravada Buddhist Literature
• 2006-07 Dr. Andrew Skilton
  Cardiff University
  Indian Buddhism
• 2005-06 Dr. Robert Kritzer
  Notre Dame University, Japan
  Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
• 2004-05 Ven. Yifa
  University of the West
  Chinese Buddhism
• 2003-04 Dr. Kate Crosby
  SOAS, University of London
  Indian and Theravada Buddhism
• 2002-03 Dr. Thupten Jinpa
  Institute for Tibetan Classics
  Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
• 2001-02 Dr. Robert Morrison
  Cardiff University
  Indian Buddhist Philosophy
• 2000-01 Dr. John Pettit
  University of Wisconsin
  Tibetan Buddhism
• 1999-2000 Ven. Mahinda Deegalle
  University of Bath Spa
  Indian and Sri Lankan Buddhism