Yanagida Seizan

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Yanagida
LastName / namelast	Seizan
MainNamePhon	Yanagida Seizan
MainNameTib	聖山柳田
SortName	Seizan, Yanagida
bio	Seizan Yanagida (聖山 柳田, 19.12.1922 - 08.09.2006) was one the most important Japanese Buddhologists in the 20th century. He was born in a small mountain temple of the Rinzai-Zen School in the hamlet Inae near Kyōto (Japan). His major area of work was the research of Chinese Chan-Buddhism. Since the year 1960 he taught as a professor at the Institute for Buddhist Studies at Hanazono-University in Kyōto and after his retirement in 1986 he founded the IRIZ (International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism) in Kyōto, that became an important research institution for many Western Buddhologists, as well. In the course of his life Prof. Yanagida published 50 books and several hundred research papers. (Source Accessed June 14, 2023)
YearBirth	1922
YearDeath	2006
BornIn	Kyōto
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