Ui Hakuju

Ui Hakuju ( Japanese 宇井 伯 壽 ; born June 1, 1882 in Mito (御 津 町), Hoi County (宝 飯 郡) in Aichi Prefecture ; died July 14, 1963 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and a connoisseur of Indian philosophy.

Live and act

Ui Hakuju, who became a monk of the Sōtō direction of Buddhism at a young age , graduated from Tōkyō University in 1909 and continued his education in Europe from 1913 to 1917 ( University of Tübingen and Oxford University ). After his return, he studied Indian and Buddhist philosophy in detail and thus laid the foundation for modern academic research in these areas.

Ui taught at Tōhoku University and Tōkyō University and in 1941 became president of the Komazawa Buddhist University . In 1945 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences .

In 1953 Ui was honored as a " person with special cultural merits " and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

His works include the "Research on Indian Philosophy" (印度 哲学 研究, Indo tetsugaku kenkyū), which he published in 6 volumes from 1924 to 1936, and the "Research on Mahayana Buddhism" (大乗 仏 典 の 研究, Daijō Butsuten kenkyū) from 1953.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Ui Hakuju . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1645.

Web links

• Ui Hakuju in the Kotobank, Japanese.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ui is the family name, Hakuju the first name.