Kate Crosby
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Kate Crosby is a British scholar of Theravāda Buddhism who is the Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Balliol College.[1]
Crosby studied Sanskrit with Pāli at St Hugh’s College, Oxford (1986–1989). She furthered her studies through the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship at the University of Hamburg and the Commonwealth Scholarship at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, followed by traditional Sanskrit study in Pune and Varanasi. She completed her DPhil at Oxford in 1999 with a thesis on medieval Sri Lankan Pāli literature.[2]
