is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

academic and historian, and one of Japan's leading scholars of

Japanese Buddhism Buddhism has been practiced in Japan since about the 6th century CE. Japanese Buddhism () created many new Buddhist schools, and some schools are original to Japan and some are derived from Chinese Buddhist schools. Japanese Buddhism has had a ...

. He is a professor at the in Kyoto.International Research Centre for Japanese Studies
faculty CV
A member of the advisory board of

Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture The is one of the largest centers in the world devoted to scholarly research on the interface of philosophy and religions within the East and West. Founded in 1976 on the campus of Nanzan University, it has established itself in Japan and around th ...

's Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, he is also a contributor to the journal itself.

Early life

Sueki's studies at the University of Tokyo were rewarded with a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1975. In 1994, he earned his Ph.D.; and he joined the faculty in the next year.University of Tokyo
Buddhism and Modern Nationalism
2005

Career

From 1995 through 2009, Sueki was a professor at the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

. In the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, he taught courses about Japanese Buddhism. His primary area of interest is the reconstruction of the intellectual history of Buddhism in Japan from ancient to modern times. Since 2009, he has been a professor at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Fumihiko Sueki,

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encompasses roughly 60+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 500+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities

末木文美士
/ref> * 日本仏教史 : 思想史としてのアプローチ (1992) * 観無量寿経 (1992) * 日本仏教思想史論考 (1993) * 禅と思想 (1997) * 鎌倉仏教形成論: 思想史の立場から (1998) * 近代日本の思想再考 (2004) * 明治思想家論 (2004) * 近代日本と仏教 (2004) * 日本宗教史 (2006) * ''The Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation'' (2009)

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