Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre

• Geschichte der frühen Yogācāra-Schule.

• Verhältnis zwischen kanonischen Schriften und buddhistischer Meditationspraxis.

• Indisch-buddhistische Kommentarliteratur.

• Komparatistische Studie mehrsprachiger Parallelüberlieferungen (Sanskrit, Tibetisch, Pāli und Chinesisch).

Curriculum Vitae

04/2026–: Projektforscher (Postdoktoranden-Stipendiat der JSPS), Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Universität Tokio. Projekt: „Buddha's Words Supporting Meditative Practice: A Study of Scriptural Interpretation in the Indian Yogācāra School“

01/2026: Promotion (Ph.D.) in Buddhismuskunde, Graduate School of Letters, Universität Kyoto.

10/2024–: Lehrbeauftragter, Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig.

2023–2026: Gastwissenschaftler (Stipendiat der Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai), Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig.

2022–2023: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Teilzeit), Institute for the Future of Human Society, Universität Kyoto / Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Mie.

2022–2023: Lehrbeauftragter, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät (Faculty of Letters), Universität Kyoto.

2019–2021: Forschungsstipendiat der JSPS (DC2), Graduate School of Letters, Universität Kyoto.

2019–2020: Gastwissenschaftler, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg.

2018–2022: Promotionsstudium in Buddhismuskunde, Graduate School of Letters, Universität Kyoto.

Publikationen

2024: [mit Satoshi Hayashima et al.] Annotated Japanese Translation of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, Chapter III: Bodhisattva’s Gotra. Kyoto: Hozokan.

2023: [mit Yusho Wakahara et al.] Annotated Japanese Translation of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, Chapter IV: Cittotpāda. Kyoto: Hozokan.

2022: [mit Izumi Miyazaki et al.] The Seventy-five Elements (Dharma) in the Madhyamakapañcaskandhaka (Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series 40). Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies.

2019: [mit Izumi Miyazaki et al.] Definitions of the Significant Terms Except Those Corresponding to the Seventy-Five Elements in the System of the Elements as Presented in the Madhyamakapañcaskandhaka (Bauddhakośa VII). Tokyo: Sankibo Busshorin.

2025: [mit Yuki Takatsukasa] A Note on the Tradition of Āgamas Concerning caitta-dharmas in the Yogācāra School: kleśas (in Japanese). Journal of Indian and Tibetan Studies 29: 170–209.

2025: [mit Jens-Uwe Hartmann] One Hundred and Eight Meanderings of Craving: The Tṛṣṇā-sūtra of the Saṃyuktāgama. In: Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies: Engaging the Scholarship of Rupert Gethin: 193–210.

2023: [mit Yuki Takatsukasa] A Note on the Tradition of Āgamas Concerning caitta-dharmas in Yogācāra: kuśalas (in Japanese). Journal of Indian and Tibetan Studies 27: 150–194.

2023: [mit Yuki Takatsukasa] A Note on the Tradition of Āgamas Concerning caitta-dharmas in Yogācāra: sarvatraga, pratiniyataviṣaya (in Japanese). Bulletin of Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryukoku University 61: 21–51.

2022: The Development of the Doctrine of Impermanence Centered on the Bodhisattvabhūmi in the Yogācārabhūmi (in Japanese). Bukkyo Shigaku Kenkyu (The Journal of the History of Buddhism) 64(1): 1–35.

2022: How Long Do Impermanent Things Last? Momentariness in the Bodhisattvabhūmivyākhyā. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 70(3): 1129–1134.

2021: The Criticism of Theism in the Śrāvakabhūmi of the Yogācārabhūmi. Religions of South Asia 15(1): 32–47.

2021: A Preliminary Survey on the Structure of the Paryāyasaṃgrahaṇī: With Its Special Focus on the *Phenapiṇḍasūtra. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 69(3): 1066–1071.

2020: Mundane Path and Nirvāṇa in the Śrāvakabhūmi of the Yogācārabhūmi: With a Special Reference to its Fourth Chapter. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 68(3): 1176–1179.

2019: The Meditation on Momentariness in the Supramundane Path Section of the Śrāvakabhūmi: From Lakṣaṇapratisaṃvedimanaskāra to Ādhimokṣikamanaskāra (in Japanese). Mikkyo Bunka (Journal of Esoteric Buddhism) 243: 11–34.

2019: Features and Position of the Meditation on Impermanence in the Cultivation of Śrāvakabhūmi in the Yogācārabhūmi: From the Preliminary Path to the Supramundane Path (in Japanese). Mikkyo Bunka (Journal of Esoteric Buddhism) 242: 57–82.