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The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

Fellowship Year

Shaashi Ahlawat

Year:
  • 2024
University of Pennsylvania
Rethinking Buddhist Decline in India: A Microregional Study of Nalanda During the Second Millennium CE

Julian Butterfield

Year:
  • 2024
Stanford University
Marveling at the Dharma: The Aesthetics of Wonder in the Medieval Chinese Cult of the Lotus Sutra

Jhubhur Chakma

Year:
  • 2024
Rajamangala University of Technology, Krungthep
The Two Buddhisms of Bangladesh: The Erasure of Indigeneity and the Rise of the Jumma Resistance

Mehrdad Derafshi

Year:
  • 2024
Sapienza Università di Roma
The Vajracchedika Prajñaparamita in Khotanese: Edition, Translation, Commentary, Grammatical Sketch, and Glossary

Lu Huang

Year:
  • 2024
Temple University
Mount Jizu: The Creation and Development of a Buddhist Sacred Site in Dali

Mengji Huang

Year:
  • 2024
Universität Heidelberg
Fruits of Cultural Exchange: The Mongolian Huayan Repentance Liturgy

Htet Min Lwin

Year:
  • 2024
York University
Secular Nation-state in Tandem with Religious Nationalist Monks: the Institutionalization of Buddhist Monastics in Myanmar

Jacob Mortimer

Year:
  • 2024
University of Oxford
The Problem of Other Minds in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy

Saliya Ashokapura Nanda

Year:
  • 2024
University of Hong Kong
The Future Buddha in Pali Buddhism: A Critical Edition, Textual Analysis, and Comparative Study of the Samantabhaddika—A Commentary on Anagatavamsa

Dhondup T. Rekjong

Year:
  • 2024
Northwestern University
Silence and Speech: Transmitting Tibetan Buddhism under Chinese Colonialism

Yingxue Wang

Year:
  • 2024
Harvard University
Jewel Beetle Ornament: Color, Power, and Ecology in Early Japanese Buddhist Art
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