Address: Graduate School/Faculty of Arts and Letters
Tohoku University
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980-8576 Sendai, Japan
Tel.: 022-795-6025
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E-mail: indobuddhology@gmail.com


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Graduate School/Faculty of Arts and Letters
Tohoku University


Contents:

Introductory
People
Syllabus


Introductory

@The culuture of the Indian sub-continent, whose history can be traced for almost four thousand years back in time, displays not only a careful preservation of its diversity and traditions, but also a wide proliferation throughout Asia, with its influence reaching as far as Japan.
 Our main research fields are Indological and Buddhist Studies. The former include Indian Philology, Philosophy and Religion, the latter Tibetology and Central Asian Studies.
 On the temporal plane, the main research fields are Ancient and Medieval Indian Culuture, but these fields have also direct reference to the study of modern-day problems.
 The research itself is conducted through careful study of original texts in Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan, and other materials of philological value.


People

Staff

Professor Toshifumi Goto Fields of Research: Vedic studies, Old-Indo-Iranian and Old-Iranian philology, Indo-European linguistics

Research Projects: (1)Morphological and syntactic-functional studies in the grammar of the verb in Old-Indoarian, Old-Iranian, Proto-Indo-Iranian, and Proto-Indo-European, (2) Philological studies in ritual, religion, thought, and other realia in ancient India and Iran, and especially as attested in the Veda and Avesta.

Works (Japanese)
Professor Munenobu Sakurai Fields of Research: Indian Tantric Buddhism, history of Indo-Tibetan missionary works on Buddhist Tantric Schools

Research Projects: I research on Indian Buddhist Tantric thought and ritual based on original Sanskrit texts and Tibetan translations as well as the historical process of their propagation into the Tibetan Buddhist Church.

Works (Japanese)
Professor Yosimizu Kiyotaka Fields of Research:

Research Projects:

Works (Japanese)

Research Associate Ryuuta Kikuya
Lecturer Naoko Nisimura
Lecturer Toshie Odajima
Lecturer Yukimi Murakami



Syllabus (2003)

History of Indian Philosophy (Lecture) I Introduction to Vedic Literature - from Veda to Brahmana - Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Lecture) II Origins of "samsara and karma" - from Upanishad to Buddhism - Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Seminar) I Sanskrit Literature (Abhijnaanazaakuntalam, Vairaagyazatakam of BhartRhari) Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Seminar) II Vedic Prose Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Seminar) III Introduction to Historical Grammar of Old Indo-Iranian@- Phonology - Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Seminar) IV Rgveda - VasiSTha and Vizvaamitra - Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Advanced Seminar) I Avesta: Hom-yast Goto
History of Indian Philosophy (Advanced Seminar) II Inscriptions of Asoka Goto
History of Indian Buddhism (Lecture) I, II Overview of History of Indian Buddhism Sakurai
History of Indian Buddhism (Seminar) I, II Abhidharmakozabhaasya Based on the Sanskrit Text in Comparison with Chinese and Tibetan Texts Sakurai
History of Indian Buddhism (Advanced Lecture) I, II Critical Study on Cakrasamvarapancakrama Sakurai
Pali I,II Elementary Pali Grammar Sakurai
Tibetan I, II Elementary Grammar of Classical Tibetan Sakurai

Intensive Course

History of Indian Philosophy (Advanced Lecture) III Literature of the School of the Vaadhuula Yasuke Ikari
History of Indian Buddhism (Advanced Lecture) III Yogaacaara-madhyamika Masamichi Ichigo



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