Takakusu Junjiro

Takakusu Junjirō (Japanese高 楠 顺 次郎; born June 29, 1866 in Kagari, Mitsugi -gun (now Mihara ), Hiroshima Prefecture, † June 28, 1945 ), who often published under the Prenonym J. Takakusu, was a Japanese Buddhologist.

He taught at the Imperial University of Tokyo, was head of the Foreign Language School in Tokyo (now Foreign Languages ​​University, Tokyo) and rector of the Toyo University.

Works

• The Amitâyur Dhyana sûtra, trans J. Takakusu, in Buddhist Mahayana Texts, Part 2, published in Sacred Books of the East, vol. 49, pp. 161-201, Oxford University Press, 1894.
• A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago, London: Clarendon Press, 1896.
• Dai Nihon Bukkyo zensho, ed Takakusu Junjirō et al, 150 volumes, Tokyo. Dai Nihon Bukkyo zensho Kankokai, 1913-1921. ( Re -edited, 100 volumes, Suzuki gakujutsu zaidan, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1970 to 1973.
• Taishō Shinshu Daizōkyō大 正 新 修 大 蔵 経, Takakusu Junjirō, Watanabe Kaigyoku. 100 volumes, Tokyo: Taisho Issaikyo Kankokai, 1924-1934.
• The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy, ed Wing- tsit Chan and Charles Moors. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. 1976