Tomabechi, T.

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English Phonetics	Tōru Tomabechi
Japanese Script	苫米地等流

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About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

International Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo

Secondary Affiliation

Dept. of Oriental Languages and Cultures, University of Lausanne

Biographical Information

Born in Hachinohe, Japan, Tōru Tomabechi (苫米地等流) graduated in Buddhist Studies at the University of Kyoto in 1989. From 1995 to 2000 he was Assistant at the Dept. of Oriental Languages and Cultures, University of Lausanne. From 2001 to 2002 he was Research Fellow at the same Department. He obtained the Imprimatur for his doctoral thesis, Étude du Pañcakrama, from the University of Lausanne in 2006. Tōru Tomabechi worked at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He participated in a research project on the epistemological school of Buddhism in India and Tibet. He is also working on two Sanskrit commentaries on the Pañcakrama—the Pañcakramapañjikā by Samayavajra and the Pañcakramatātparyapañjikā Kramakaumudī by Abhayākaragupta—using manuscripts newly available from China, and on other tantric texts.

Currently he is a member of the International Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo. (Source Accessed Apr 14, 2020)

Publications

• 1996. Zhongxin Jiang and Toru Tomabechi. The Pañcakramaṭippaṇī of Muniśrībhadra: Introduction and Romanized Sanskrit Text. Bern: Peter Lang (Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft Monographie Vol. 23).

• 2000. "Notes on Robert Thurman's Translation of the Pañcakrama". In: Journal of Indian Philosophy (28 (5-6): pp. 531-548). Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• 2009. Luo Hong and Toru Tomabechi. Candrakīrti's Vajrasattvaniṣpādanasūtra (Vajrasattvasādhana): Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts – Critically edited. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House (Sanskrit texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region No. 6); Vienna: Austrian Acadamy of Sciences Press.

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• Tomabechi, T. on the DRL
• Tomabechi, T. on the LIB
• Tomabechi, T. on the BNW

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Full Name

Tōru Tomabechi

Affiliation

Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Education

University of Kyoto, 1989

University of Lausanne, Ph.D. 2006

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Biography

Born in Hachinohe, Japan, Tōru Tomabechi (苫米地等流) graduated in Buddhist Studies at the University of Kyoto in 1989. From 1995 to 2000 he was Assistant at the Dept. of Oriental Languages and Cultures, University of Lausanne. From 2001 to 2002 he was Research Fellow at the same Department. He obtained the Imprimatur for his doctoral thesis, Étude du Pañcakrama, from the University of Lausanne in 2006.

Since 2004 Tōru Tomabechi has worked at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He participates in a research project on the epistemological school of Buddhism in India and Tibet. He is also working on two Sanskrit commentaries on the Pañcakrama — the Pañcakramapañjikā by Samayavajra and the Pañcakramatātparyapañjikā Kramakaumudī by Abhayākaragupta — using manuscripts newly available from China, and on other tantric texts. Source

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.