Harimoto, K.

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English Phonetics	Kengo Harimoto

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Rab Jyung

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About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Mahidol University

PhD University

University of Pennsylvania

Biographical Information

Kengo Harimoto has been a faculty member in the Buddhist Studies department at Mahidol University in Thailand since 2015. He is a Sanskritist focusing on Indian Philosophy, an expert reader of manuscripts, and has a wide academic background ranging from Vedānta, to Āyurveda, to the edition of Buddhist philosophical commentaries. (Source Accessed April 27, 2020)

Publications

• Textual Criticism in the Gopālikā of Parameśvara III on Maṇḍana Miśra’s Sphoṭasiddhi. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu), Vol. 63, No. 3, March 2015.

• God, Reason, and Yoga. A Critical Edition and Translation of the Commentary Ascribed to Śaṅkara on Pātañjalayogaśāstra 1.23-28. Hamburg: Indian and Tibetan Studies I, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2014.

• Fragments of a Commentary on the Tattvasaṅgraha, part II. Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, Vol XIV 2012.

• In Search of the Oldest Nepalese Manuscript. In: Freschi, E., et al. (eds) The Study of Asia between Antiquity and Modernity. Proceedings of the first Coffee-Break Conference, Rivista degli Studi Orientali, Nuova Serie, Vol. LXXXIV (2011), Fasc. 1–4, Roma 2012, pp. 85–106.

• A Fragment of the Āgamaśāstravivaraṇa. Newsletter of the NGMCP 5, 2007.

• The Date of Śaṅkara: Between the Cāḷukyas and the Rāṣṭrakūṭas. Journal of Indological Studies, n. 18, 2006.

• Jürgen Hanneder, editor: The Mokṣopāya, Yogavāsiṣṭha and Related Texts. Geistkultur Indiens, Texte und Studien, Herausgegeben von Walter Slaje unter Mittwirkung von Jürgen Hanneder und Andreas Pohlus, Band 7. Aachen: Shaker Verlag 2005. Pp. 153. ISBN 3- 8322-4265-1.” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl¨andischen Gesellschaft, Band 159 (2009), Heft 2, pp. 492–495.

• Patañjalayogaśāstravivarana 3.17, Sphoṭasiddhi k.27and Brahmasūtrabhāṣya 1.3.28 Journal: Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu), 1993.

• On the Hairaṇyagarbhayogaśāstra Journal: Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu), 1991.

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• Harimoto, K. on the DRL
• Harimoto, K. on the LIB
• Harimoto, K. on the BNW

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.