Takakusu Junjirō
Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 (1866-1945) was one of the earliest leading Japanese scholars of Indian Buddhism. [1] He had an important role in making Japan as center for Buddhist studies scholarship. He was born in today’s Hiroshima prefecture to a Jodo Shinshu family of the Nishi Honganjiha.
He was adopted into the Takakusu merchant family who would lead him to travel in Europe from 1890 to 1897. Nanjō Bunyū helped him study Indologg under Friedrich Mad Müller at Oxford University receiving his BA then MA in 1894 and 1896 respectively. During his time there he support Müller’s work on the Sacred Books of the East project. Both Nanjō and Takakusu influenced Mūller’s Buddhist text choices.
Takakusu also studied in Pris with Sylvain Lévi, they later worked in the Hōbōgirin Buddhist encyclopedia project.
He went on to teach Indian philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University from 1899-1927.
Much of this article is paraphrase from the entry on p. 891-892.
- ↑ Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.
