Takasaki, J.

FirstName / namefirst	Jikidō
LastName / namelast	Takasaki
bio	Jikido Takasaki, D. Litt. (1926-2013), was a specialist in Indian Buddhism, especially the philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1950, he studied at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute at Poona, making a special study of the Ratnagotravibhaga, for which he received a Ph.D. degree in 1959 from the University of Poona. He began his teaching career in 1957 at Komazawa University, Tokyo, and after a period of teaching at Osaka University he eventually gained a professorship at the University of Tokyo in 1977, from where he retired in 1987. His many publications include, in addition to the present work, The Formation of Tathagata Thought (in Japanese), Lectures on the Lankavatarasutra (in Japanese), and An Introduction to Buddhism (in Japanese and English).
YearBirth	1926
YearDeath	2013
BornIn	Japan
languageprimary	Japanese, English
languagetranslation	Tibetan; Chinese; Sanskrit
languagetarget	English, Japanese
affiliation	University of Tokyo
phduniversity	University of Poona
education	1959, PhD, University of Poona
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Recent Publication: Collected Papers on the Tathagatagarbha Doctrine by Jikido Takasaki ISBN (Hardbound): ISBN 8120839447, ISBN 9788120839441

PDF for A Study of the Ratnagotravibhaga: http://lirs.ru/lib/uttara/A_Study_of_Ratnagotravibhaga,Takasaki,1966.pdf