| Position | Professor |
|---|---|
| Faculty | Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies |
| Graduate School | Indian Literature & Philosophy and Buddhist Studies |
| Department | Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies |
Career
| June 2011 : | Doktor der Philosophie (magna cum laude) Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. |
| April 2018 : | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Indian Philosophy, Sanskrit Philology
1) Study of Vedānta
My primary field of research is the Vedānta school of thought, which is considered one of the orthodox schools of Brahmanism. Within this school, I focus on the analysis of commentarial literature on the Upaniṣads, the Brahmasūtra, and the Bhagavadgītā. Through this analysis, I study the development of Vedānta thought that has been passed down to the present day.
2) Sanskrit Philology, Sanskrit Manuscriptology
In recent years, I have adopted an approach from the perspective of palaeography, involving the collection of manuscripts, textual criticism, and research on translation and commentary. The project I am currently working on, "Bhāskara," aims to create a critically edited text of Bhāskara's commentary on the Brahmasūtra and the Bhagavadgītā, and to conduct translation and commentary research based on this text. (Part of the research results is "The First Two Chapters of Bhāskara’s Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya – Critically edited with an Introduction, Notes and an Appendix.")
3) Handwritten Devanāgarī OCR Project
This research involves developing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to read handwritten Devanagari script, which is used in various languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, and Nepali. Using this technology, we aim to create a database of the documents that have been read by the OCR.
