is a Japanese-born
Tibetologist
Tibetology () refers to the study of things related to Tibet, including its history, religion, language, culture, politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance. The last may mean a collection of ...
who has spent his career in France. He is director of research emeritus at the
National Center for Scientific Research in France.
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Born in
Aichi Prefecture, Imaeda graduated from the
Otani University Faculty of Letters, where he studied with Shoju Inaba, under whose advice he pursued graduate studies in France, where he earned his Ph.D. at Paris VII. He began work at the CNRS in 1974. Between 1981 and 1990, he worked as an adviser to the National Library of Bhutan Bhutan. In 1995, he was a visiting professor at the
University of California
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, Berkeley, and has also held a visiting appointment at
Columbia University
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.
His research has focused on Dunhuang Tibetan documents, but he has also translated the poems of the VI Dalai lama, and produced a catalog of
Kanjur texts.
Selected works
*Kuløy, Hallvard Kȧre and Yoshiro Imaeda (1986). ''Bibliography of Tibetan studies.'' Narita: Naritasan Shinshōji.
*Imaeda, Yoshiro (1988). ''Papermaking in Bhutan.'' Kasama: Cannabis Press.
*Imaeda, Yoshiro (2000). Rituel des traités de paix sino-tibétains du VIIIe au IXe siècle, La Sérinde, terre d'échanges (2000) 87-98.
*Imaeda, Yoshiro (2008). ''Enchanted by Bhutan.'' Thimphu : KMT Publishers, 2008.
*Imaeda, Yoshiro (2010). "The Bar do thos grol, or 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead': Tibetan Conversion to Buddhism or Tibetanization of Buddhism?" in ''Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang'' ed. Matthew T. Kapstein and Sam van Schaik. Leiden: Brill. 145-158.
*Imaeda, Yoshiro, Matthew Kapstein, and Tsuguhito Takeuchi, eds. (2011). ''New studies of the old Tibetan documents : philology, history and religion.'' Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
References
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1947 births
Living people
People from Aichi Prefecture
People related to Jōdo Shinshū