This is the list of notable modern scholars in the field of Buddhist studies.

• Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852)
• Viggo Fausböll (1821–1908)
• Robert Caesar Childers (1838–1876)
• T.W. Rhys Davids (1843–1922)
• Nanjo Bunyu (1849–1927)
• Hermann Oldenberg (1854–1920)
• Wilhelm Geiger (1856–1943)
• C.A.F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942)
• Robert Chalmers (1858–1938)
• P. Lakshmi Narasu (1861–1934) ^[1]
• Takakusu Junjirō (1866–1945)
• D.T. Suzuki (1870–1966)
• Frank Lee Woodward (1871–1952)
• Masaharu Anesaki (1873–1949)
• Nyanatiloka Mahathera (1878–1957)
• A. K. Coomaraswamy (1877–1947)
• Johannes Nobel (1887–1960)
• A. P. Buddhadatta Mahathera (1887–1962)
• Benimadhab Barua (1888–1948)
• Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero (1896–1998)
• Isaline Blew Horner (1896–1981)
• Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera (1899–1973)
• Nyanaponika Thera (1901–1994)
• Edward Conze (1904–1979)
• Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu (1905–1960)
• K. N. Jayatilleke (1920–1970)
• John Crook (1930–2011)
• Y. Karunadasa (b. 1934)
• David Kalupahana (1936–2014)
• Richard Gombrich (b. 1937)
• P. D. Premasiri (b. 1941)
• Robert Thurman (b. 1941)
• L. S. Cousins (1942–2015)
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (b. 1944)
• Victor Sogen Hori (b. 1944)
• Bernard Faure (b. 1948)
• Shanti Swaroop Baudh (1949–2020) ^[2]
• K.L. Dhammajoti (b. 1949)
• Steven Heine (b. 1950)
• Damien Keown (b. 1951)
• Masatoshi Ueki (b. 1951)
• Vello Väärtnöu (b. 1951)
• Donald S. Lopez Jr. (b. 1952)
• Bhikkhu Analayo (b. 1962)
• James Robson (b. 1965)
• Anne Blackburn (b. 1967)
• Rupert Gethin
• Pabbajjoravitipalivijjamuniyo (b. 1972)
• Erick Tsiknopoulos (b. 1981)
• Jack Meng-Tat Chia (b. 1982)
• David Komito
• Kogen Mizuno (1901–2006), a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Soto sect and scholar of Early Buddhism. ^[3]
• Jan Nattier

See also

• Pali Text Society
• List of Sāsana Azani recipients
• Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
• Mahamakut Buddhist University
• International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University
• State Pariyatti Sasana University, Yangon
• State Pariyatti Sasana University, Mandalay
• Dhammaduta Chekinda University
• Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka
• Gautam Buddha University
• Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies
• Lumbini Buddhist University
• Chittagong Pali College
• Sitagu International Buddhist Academy
• International Buddhist Studies College
• Buddhist Institute, Cambodia
• Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
• List of Buddhist universities and colleges

References

Shan State Buddhist University