is a
Japanese
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scholar
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in
Buddhist studies
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.
Ueki works with the original
Buddhist texts
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(such as
Sanskrit
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and
Pali
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), which encompass the diachronic history of Buddhism, from
Early Buddhism The term Early Buddhism can refer to at least two distinct periods in the History of Buddhism, mostly in the History of Buddhism in India:
* Pre-sectarian Buddhism, which refers to the teachings and monastic organization and structure, founded by Ga ...
to
Mahayana sutras
The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scriptures (''sūtra'') that are accepted as canonical and as ''buddhavacana'' ("Buddha word") in Mahāyāna Buddhism. They are largely preserved in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Tibetan B ...
(e.g., the
Lotus Sutra
The ''Lotus Sūtra'' ( zh, 妙法蓮華經; sa, सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्रम्, translit=Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, lit=Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, italic=) is one of the most influ ...
and the
Vimalakirti Sutra
The ''Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa'' (Devanagari: विमलकीर्तिनिर्देश) (sometimes referred to as the ''Vimalakīrti Sūtra'' or ''Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra'') is a Buddhist text which centers on a lay Buddhist meditat ...
), including an analysis of
Chinese
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and Japanese translations of the sutras.
Career
Ueki is a
research
Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...
er in
Buddhist thoughts. He was born in
Nagasaki
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It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...
,
Japan
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, and graduated from
Kyushu University
, abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu.
It was the 4th Imperial University in Japan, ranked as 4th in 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, one of the top 10 Design ...
(
Bachelor
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Etymo ...
of
Physics
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,
Master
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*Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...
of
Science
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). From 1979, he worked as a journalist (fine arts and literature), and in 1992, he was awarded "Cosmos, rookie of the year" on his story "Circus girl."
From 1991, he studied under Professor
Hajime Nakamura
was a Japanese Orientalist, Indologist, philosopher and academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures.
Biography
Nakamura was born in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. In 1943 he graduated from the Department of Literature at Tokyo Imperia ...
at the Eastern Institute. In 2002, Ueki received his
Ph.D
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. (Humanity) from
Ochanomizu University
is a women's university in the Ōtsuka neighborhood of Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Ochanomizu University is one of the top national universities in Japan.
Ochanomizu is the name of a Tokyo neighborhood where the university was founded.
Hi ...
(with the thesis entitled「仏教におけるジェンダー平等の研究──『法華経』に至るインド仏教からの考察」
ender equality in Buddhism: An analysis of Indian Buddhism, [from Early Buddhismto ‘the Lotus Sutra']) In 2008 to 2013, Ueki is an adjunct lecturer at Center for the Studies of World Civilizations, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has also taught at NHK cultural center and Asahi culture center
In 2008, Ueki published “Bon-Kan-Wa Taisho Gendaigo Yaku, Hokekyo", 1st and 2nd volumes (『梵漢和対照・現代語訳 法華経』（上・下）,
he Lotus Sutra: A contrastive translation between Sanskrit-Chinese-Japanese which consist of 1) Sanskrit texts, 2) Chinese translation by
Kumarajiva, and 3) Japanese translation by the author). With this work, Ueki won the Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Sho.
He also translated ‘the Vimalakirti Sutra’, which was found in
Potala Palace
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The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythica ...
,
Tibet
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, in 1999, into modern Japanese, and published “Bon-Kan-Wa Taisho Gendaigo Yaku, Yuimakyo" (『梵漢和対照・現代語訳 維摩経』,
he Vimalakirti Sutra: A contrastive translation between Sanskrit-Chinese-Japanese, and won
the Papyrus Award in 2013.
In 2017, Ueki contributed a column series to the
Nishinippon Shimbun
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, entitled "Bukkyo 50 wa"(『仏教５０話』
0 Buddhist stories). Ueki intended to introduce and explain Buddhism for a broad audience easily with daily concepts or common sense.
In 2018, April, Ueki is talking as a commentator on the
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
broadcasting program "
100 Pun de Meicho" (『
１００分de名著』
n introduction to a masterpiece of literature within 100 minutes.
Ueki is a member of The Japan P.E.N Club, The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, and Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy.
Talks
Publication
Publication in English
• Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture（with Robin Wang and Makiko Ueki）Hackett Publ. Inc., Massachusetts, 2003
• Gender Equality in Buddhism, Asian Thought and Culture series vol. 46, Peter Lang Publ. Inc., New York, 2001
Publication in Japanese
Translation
・“Therī-gāthā — Immortal Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns,” (2017)
・The Vimalakirti Sutra (2011)
・The Lotus Sutra (2008)
・“The Lotus Sutra — Translation into Modern Language of a Sanskrit Original”
(2015)
Books
(some major works by Ueki)
Columns
『仏教５０話』(50 Buddhist stories) (2017) Nishinippon Shimbun.
Others
See
Japanese profile
Footnotes
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