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

Promoting the academic study of Buddhism and the dissemination of knowledge of Buddhist traditions
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Uudam Baoagudamu

Year:
  • 2026
University of California, Santa Barbara
Overlapping Mandates: Buddhism, Empire, and Local Agency in Eighteenth-Century Inner Mongolia

Jialin Cao

Year:
  • 2026
Columbia University
Wrathful Divinities, Mandalic Governance, and Crisis-Management Buddhism: The Five Great Wisdom Kings in Early-Heian Japan

Pronoy Chakraborty

Year:
  • 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Mystic Power and Riverine Networks: Visualizations of Channels, Winds, and Sexual Fluids in the Carya Songs attributed to the Tantric Buddhist Mahasiddhas

Yui Cheong Richards Chang

Year:
  • 2026
University of Oxford
Ecologies of Conversion: Translator, Water, and Klu in the Buddhist Transformation of the Western Himalayas

Sharon Tzu-Yin Chi

Year:
  • 2026
Universität Heidelberg
The Buddha's Ghostwriter: Zhu Fonian and His Composition

Julia Hirsch

Year:
  • 2026
Stanford University
In the Wake of Rupture: Creating Sacred Body Relics in the Tibetan Buddhist Diaspora

Tanner D. McAlister

Year:
  • 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Narrating the Rise and Fall of a Buddhist Civilization: Buddhist History in Orgyen Lingpa’s Five-Fold Testament (Bka’ thang sde lnga)

Pema Sherpa

Year:
  • 2026
McMaster University
Mtsho sna ba’s Shadow: Power and Canonization of the Tibetan Buddhist Commentaries