The Hakubi Project

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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

Short Introduction

　A book of Mikkyo(密教) which I took in my high school days aroused my interest in Indian Tāntric Buddhism. After entering University, I was getting more interested in the cultural transmission from India to Tibet. The later Indian Buddhists, especially Abhayākaragupta(around 11-12th) who was one of last abbots Nālanda and Vikramaśīla monastery, had transferred their “fruit of intellect” collected over hundreds of years to the “Country of Snow(Himālaya)” before the fall of Indian Buddhism(the destruction of Vikramaśīla, A.D.1193). I am interested in analyzing the Complex Culture of Indo-Tibetan Tāntric Ritual including Architecture, Iconology, Astronomy and Medicine. Among them, my chief concern is embryology and thanatology in Maṇḍala-theory. On the Hakubi project, I will focus on study of Āmnāyamañjarī; the Encyclopedic commentary of Abhayākara, based on the New-found Sanskrit-Tibetan Bilingual codex. Furthermore, I will proceed with the project by collaborating with ITLR(Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource) in Hamburg University.

Latest News

• Nov. 26, 2020

  Hakubi Seminar Announcement (189th meeting)

• Mar. 3, 2020

  Associate Professor Ryuta KIKUYA will co-host an international workshop【Toward a Construction of an International Network of Sanskrit Manuscript Study】with Dr. Toshiro HORIUCHI, visiting researcher of University of Hamburg and Toyo University at University of Hamburg in Germany.

• Feb. 13, 2020

  Hakubi Seminar Announcement (179th meeting)

• Jul. 11, 2019

  Hakubi Seminar Announcement (169th meeting)

• Apr. 3, 2018

  Hakubi Seminar Announcement (145th meeting)