3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
The following 12 researchers are working at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. The Map of Hakubi Researchers.
:Global Type
:Tenure-track Type
Research Interests: Ancient Indian Literature
Research Topic: Language and social-cultural background of the ancient Indian ritual literature
My research object is an ancient Indian text, Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, which is estimated to have been composed in ca. 900BC. This text is known to be difficult to understand because it contains peculiar knowledge about ancient rituals, which are not well understood. I published a German translation of the first half of this text in 2009 and am now translating the entire text. In the course of this study, I noticed that each chapter in the text has its own peculiarity of language style and I came to inquire about the different historical and cultural backgrounds of the chapters and to consider the development process of ritual and ritual philosophy at the time it was composed. I plan to introduce new methods of language style analysis, such as those developed by discipline of natural language processing, in order to open a new phase of study.
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