Takakusu Junjirō

Takakusu Junjirō

Takakusu Junjirō ( Japanese 高 楠 順 次郎 ; born June 29, 1866 in Kagari , Mitsugi-gun (today: Mihara ), Hiroshima Prefecture ; died June 28, 1945 ), who often published under the prenonym J. Takakusu , was a Japanese Buddhologist .

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Takakusu Junjirō graduated from Ryūkoku University. In 1890 he went to England and studied Indian religion and philosophy as well as Sanskrit under the German scholar Friedrich Max Müller . Back in Tōkyō, he taught Sanskrit literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo . He gathered around himself a group of Buddhist scholars and devoted all his strength and resources to the publication of a series of translations of Buddhist literature and original Indian documents.

Takakusu was director of the Tokyo Foreign Language School (now Tokyo Foreign Language University ) and Rector of Tōyō University .

In 1944 Takaksu was awarded the Order of Culture .

Works

• The Amitâyur dhyâna-sûtra , trans J. Takakusu, in Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts, Part 2 , published in Sacred Books of the East , vol. 49, pp. 161-201, Oxford University Press , 1894.
• A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practiced in India and the Malay Archipelago , London: Clarendon Press, 1896.
• Dai Nihon Bukkyō zensho , ed. Takakusu Junjirō et al., 150 volumes, Tokyo: Dai Nihon Bukkyō zensho kankōkai, 1913–1921. (Re-edited, 100 volumes, Suzuki gakujutsu zaidan, Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1970–1973.)
• Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 大 正 新 脩 大 蔵 経 , Takakusu Junjirō, Watanabe Kaigyoku. 100 volumes, Tokyo: Taisho Issaikyo Kankokai, 1924–1934.
• The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy , ed. Wing-tsit Chan and Charles Moors. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 1976
• Junjirô Takakusu: Fundamentals of Buddhist Philosophy (translated by Julian Braun). Frankfurt: Angkor Verlag 2013. ISBN

978-3-943839-23-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 高 楠 順 次郎 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 18, 2012 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Klautau, Orion: Nationalizing the Dharma: takakusu junjiro and the Politics of Buddhist Scholarship in Early Twentieth-Century Japan . In: Japanese Religions . tape 39 , no. 1-2 , 2014 ( tohoku.ac.jp ).

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Takakusu Junjirō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1503.

Web links

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Takakusu is the family name, Junjirō the first name.