| Position | Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies |
| Graduate School | Indian Literature & Philosophy and Buddhist Studies |
| Department | Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies |
Career
| September 2004: | Ph.D., Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
| April 2017: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Buddhist Studies
1) Historical development of the Yogacara Philosophy
The Yogacara, one of the schools of Mahayana Buddhism, is well known for as Buddhist Idealism. This school is commonly believed to deny the existence of the external world, asserting instead that all phenomena are merely products of consciousness. However, in its early development, the Yogacara school suggested the existence of an intrinsically inexpressible entity. This fact implies a transition from a non-idealistic stance to a fully developed idealism. My research focuses on this philosophical development to reconsider the significance of Yogacara Idealism.
2) Digitalization of the Buddhist Text using TEI: P5
TEI: P5 is guidelines for providing rich tools to encode the textual materials. In my investigation, I am creating electronic texts of Buddhist literature written in Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan using TEI: P5.
