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Antonello Palumbo is the Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies for Fall 2024. A visiting faculty member, he holds expertise in premodern China's religious, social, and political history with a focus on Buddhism. His career includes roles at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Leiden University, Yale University, and Heidelberg University. He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the Istituto Universitario Orientale (Naples, Italy), alongside studies at Peking University and Kyoto University.
His research emphasizes the intersections of Buddhism with broader Old World systems, reflected in his monograph An Early Chinese Commentary on the Ekottarika-āgama (2013) and numerous scholarly articles. Palumbo’s work bridges textual analysis with historical contextualization, particularly regarding Buddhist scriptures and their socio-political implications in premodern East Asia.
