Dr. Keiki Nakayama
Guest Researcher
Office hours:
By appointment
Main Research and Teaching Interests
• History of the Early Yogācāra School.
• Relationship between Canonical Scriptures and Buddhist Meditative Practice.
• Indian Buddhist commentarial literature.
• Comparative Study of Multilingual Parallels (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, and Chinese).
Curriculum Vitae
2026.04–: Specially Appointed Researcher (JSPS Research Postdoctoral Fellow), Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo. Project: "Buddha's Words Supporting Meditative Practice: A Study of Scriptural Interpretation in the Indian Yogācāra School"
2026.01: Ph.D., Buddhist Studies (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University).
2024.10–: Part-time Lecturer, Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University.
2023–2026: Visiting Researcher (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai Scholarship Fellow), Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University.
2022–2023: Part-time Researcher, Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University / Faculty of Humanities, Mie University.
2022–2023: Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University.
2019–2021: JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University.
2019–2020: Visiting Researcher, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg.
2018–2022: Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University).
Publications
2024: [with Satoshi Hayashima et al.] Annotated Japanese Translation of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, Chapter III: Bodhisattva’s Gotra. Kyoto: Hozokan.
2023: [with Yusho Wakahara et al.] Annotated Japanese Translation of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, Chapter IV: Cittotpāda. Kyoto: Hozokan.
2022: [with 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: [with 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: [with 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: [with 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: [with 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: [with 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.