Details of a Researcher - FUJIMOTO, Yosuke

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FUJIMOTO, Yosuke

Affiliation

Affiliated organization, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study

Job title

Assistant Professor(non-tenure-track)

Degree

The Degree of Doctor of Literature ( 2022.02 Waseda University )

Mail Address

Research Experience

2026.04

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Waseda University Waseda Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor
2023.04

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Kokugakuin University Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters Part-time Lecturer
2025.04

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2026.03

International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies Research Fellow
2023.04

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2026.03

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2024.10

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2025.03

Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Part-time Lecturer
2024.04

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2025.03

Leipzig University Institute for South and Central Asian Studies Visiting Researcher
2023.04

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2025.03

International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies Contract Researcher
2023.04

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2024.03

Komazawa University Faculty of Buddhism Part-time Lecturer
2023.04

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2024.03

Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Part-time Lecturer
2022.04

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2023.03

Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Culture, Media and Society Assistant Professor (without tenure)
2021.04

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2022.03

Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Culture, Media and Society Research Associate
2018.07

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2018.08

Waseda University School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Assistant
2012.04

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2014.03

Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I Teaching Assistant
2013.10

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2014.02

Waseda University School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Assistant
2012.06

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2013.01

Waseda University School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Assistant
2011.07

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2012.01

Waseda University School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Assistant

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Education Background

2013.04

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2021.03

Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences
2019.10

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2020.09

University of Hamburg Asia-Africa-Institute Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies
2010.04

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2013.03

Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences
2006.04

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2010.03

Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I

Committee Memberships

2025.06

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GBS Editorial Committee Managing Editor
2021.04

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2023.03

Transcultural Studies Editorial Board Member

Professional Memberships

2023.04

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The Association of Buddhist Philosophy
2021.04

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Association for Transcultural Studies, Waseda University
2019.05

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International Association of Buddhist Studies
2014.04

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The Nippon Buddhist Research Association
2014.04

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Now

The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
2007.04

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The Association of Asian Philosophy, Waseda University

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Research Areas

Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy Abhidharma / Foreign language education Sanskrit / Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics Lexicography

Research Interests

Indian Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism
Sarvāstivāda
Abhidharma
Lexicography
Translation

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Papers

Subhāṣita-Mañjarī: A Selection of 101 Subhāṣitas in Sanskrit with Translations into 13 Languages

Spoken Sanskrit Study Group, Leipzig 2024, Yosuke Fujimoto, Bhikṣu Woonsaan SEOK, Beier Wang, Feng Yang, Zhoulin Li, Tashi Dondrub, Bob Chung Woo, Ting Kwong Lau, Dorjee Kyab, Tenzin Yangzom, Sadananda Das, Eva Götzingerová, Lilli Sharma, Nara Hank, Davide Persechini, Yuki Kyogoku, Hélène de Brux, Gonzalo Jerez Sánchez, Joaquín Iglesias Turina

Global Buddhist Studies 1 ( 1 ) 13 - 338 2026.03 [International coauthorship]

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This paper presents a multilingual translation of the Subhāṣita-Mañjarī (literally, “a cluster of wise sayings,” Padmaja Prakashan, 2015, 4th rev. ed.), a traditional Sanskrit collection of didactic verses selected and compiled by Dr. Sadananda Das of Leipzig University. It contains 101 verses suitable for Sanskrit language study and moral instruction, accompanied by parallel translations in 13 languages: Japanese, Korean, Modern Chinese, Classical Chinese, Tibetan, Odia, Czech, Polish, German, Italian, French, English, and Spanish. The work was undertaken as an international collaboration led by Dr. Sadananda Das and Dr. Yosuke Fujimoto of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, and originated in a summer school in Spoken Sanskrit held in Leipzig in 2024. The translations reflect the varied approaches by individual translators in balancing semantic fidelity to the Sanskrit original with literary expression appropriate to each target language. Alongside the translated texts, this paper includes appendices containing an overview of the Sanskrit meters used in the Subhāṣita-Mañjarī and audio recordings of the subhāṣitas in Sanskrit, Odia, Czech, and Korean. The publication is thus intended to serve as a resource for the study of classical Sanskrit wisdom and culture worldwide.

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Vasubandhu on Sāsrava and Anāsrava in the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies ( 30 ) 2026 [Refereed]
The Introduction and Transcription of Fragments of Buddhist Writings Collected by Sasaki Tadasato (佐佐木忠慧), the Collection of Waseda University Library

Soichiro Takemoto, Yosuke Fujimoto

Bulletin of the Waseda University Library ( 72 ) 1 - 24 2025.03

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I contributed an analysis of the Tibetan manuscript of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā in Section 4

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Definitions of Sāsrava in the Sarvāstivāda Hṛdaya Treatises: Part 2

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies ( 29 ) 201 - 221 2025.03 [Refereed]
Sarvāstivādin's Revision of the Meaning of the Verb anu-śī-

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of Buddhist Studies ( 65 ) 1 - 24 2024.05 [Refereed]
Definitions of Sāsrava in the Sarvāstivāda Hṛdaya Treatises: Part 1

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies ( 28 ) 133 - 162 2024.03 [Refereed]
Definitions of Sāsrava and Anāsrava Factors in the Mahāvibhāṣā

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of the Faculty of Buddhism, Komazawa University ( 82 ) 61 - 78 2024.03

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Misunderstandings of the Verb anu-śī-: Abhidharmakośabhāṣya and Abhidharmadīpa-Vibhāṣāprabhāvṛtti

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 71 ( 2 ) 72 - 77 2023.03 [Refereed]
Why is the Buddha's Body Impure (sāsrava)? A Logical Analysis of the Sarvāstivādin Argument for the Impurity of the Buddha's Body

Yosuke Fujimoto

Thought and Religions in Asia 39 22 - 46 2022.03 [Refereed]
Sāsrava and Anāsrava Factors in Sūtra 56 of the Saṃyuktāgama: With a Special Focus on the Sarvāstivādin Interpretation

Yosuke Fujimoto

Transcultural Studies 11 38 - 63 2022.02 [Refereed]
Definitions of Sāsrava and Anāsrava Factors and their Development in the Sarvāstivāda School

Yosuke Fujimoto

PhD Dissertation 2021.11 [Refereed]
The Background of Vasubandhu's Definition of Sāsrava-dharmas: Focusing on the Contextual Use of anu-śī-

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 66 ( 2 ) 853 - 849 2018.03 [Refereed]

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In chapter 1 of the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya, Vasubandhu defines impure dharmas (sāsrava-dharmas) as dharmas to which leakages (āsravas) cling (samanuśerate). The problem here is that the verb anu-śī- (Chi. suizeng 随増), which originally means "to cling to," is associated with the conception of sāsrava, although there is no etymological relation between the two. In this paper, I will examine how Vasubandhu forms the definition of sāsrava-dharmas with a focus on the contextual use of anu-śī- in Sarvāstivādin doctrine.In Sarvāstivādin literature, the *Dharmaskandha (Chi. Fayun zu lun 法蘊足論) first uses anu-śī- to define the three realms. Then, the *Prakaraṇapāda (Chi. Pinlei zu lun 品類足論) uses anu-śī- to build a relation between the three realms and their corresponding contaminants (anuśayas) as follows: all the contaminants of the desire realm cling to the desire realm; all the contaminants of the form realm cling to the form realm; and all the contaminants of formless realm cling to the formless realm. According to Sarvāstivādin doctrine, the three realms are equal to the dharmas bound to the three realms, and these dharmas are equated with the sāsrava-dharmas. This suggests that dharmas to which contaminants cling are indirectly identical to sāsrava-dharmas.From this investigation, I conclude that Vasubandhu forms the definition of sāsrava-dharmas by connecting directly dharmas to which contaminants cling with sāsrava-dharmas, and substituting leakages for contaminants.

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On the Meaning of the Word Sarvatraga in the Sarvatraga-anuśaya

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 65 ( 1 ) 343 - 340 2016.12 [Refereed] [Domestic journal]

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The aim of this paper is to determine the original meaning of the word sarvatraga in the sarvatraga-anuśayas in the Sarvāstivādin doctrine of the anuśayas. Although sarvatraga-anuśayas are attested in the *Vijñānakāya-śāstra (Chi. Shishen zu lun 識身足論), four different doctrinal interpretations are made concerning sarvatraga, which literally means "going/functioning everywhere," in the *Mahāvibhāṣā (Chi. Posha lun 婆沙論). Based on these interpretations, and on the position the sarvatraga-anuśayas hold within the framework of the darśanaheya-anuśayas (the contaminants to be eliminated by realizing the four noble truths), I consider the following two to be the possible original meanings of sarvatraga: "having all the sāsrava-dharmas (all the contaminated dharmas) as its object-support" and "having all the five categories of dharmas (all the dharmas from the duḥkhadarśanaheya-dharmas to the bhāvanāheya-dharmas) as its object-support." Demonstrating that the latter meaning is secondary as it generally occurs in contrast to the asarvatraga-anuśayas that have as their object-support the svanikāya-dharmas (the dharmas belonging to the same category as these anuśayas), I have concluded that the notion of sarvatraga as having all the sāsrava-dharmas as its object-support is the original meaning.

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The Sarvāstivādin Theory of the Elimination of Contaminants: On the Method of Eliminating Visabhāgadhātusarvatraga-anuśayas

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 64 ( 1 ) 385 - 382 2015.12 [Refereed]

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On the Historical Background of Rāga, Pratigha, Māna, and Avidyā in the Darśanaheya-anuśayas

Yosuke Fujimoto

Thought and Religion of Asia ( 32 ) 25 - 38 2015.03 [Refereed]

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Rāga, pratigha, māna, and avidyā in the darśanaheya-anuśayas

Yosuke Fujimoto

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 63 ( 1 ) 395 - 392 2014.12 [Refereed]

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Books and Other Publications

Dharmakīrti’s System of Epistemology and Logic in the Nyāyabindu

Mai Miyo, Yosuke Fujimoto, Eiko Kodama, Ryushin Sudo, Daisei Michimoto, Miyako Notake, Takashi Iwata( Part： Joint editor)

Sankibo Buddhist Book Store 2022.02 ISBN: 9784796303224

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In this book, we provide critically edited texts and modern, easy-to-read translations of passages in which key terms or concepts in Dharmakīrti’s Nyāyabindu occur, largely with the help of Dharmottara’s Nyāyabinduṭīkā and Pramāṇaviniścayaṭīkā, and Durvekamiśra’s Dharmottarapradīpa. Although written mostly in Japanese, it will help you systematically understand the basics of Dharmakīrti’s logic and epistemology with its past studies.

Presentations

Pursuing the Possibility of Producing A Tibetan-Japanese Digital Dictionary

Yosuke Fujimoto [Invited]

11th Information Exchange Meeting on Tibetan Studies (Shuchiin University) Yusuke Bessho; Shiho Ebihara

Presentation date： 2025.10

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2025.10

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Uncovering the Structure of Anuśayas to Be Abandoned Through the Realization of the Four Noble Truths

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 20th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (Leipzig)

Presentation date： 2025.08

Event date：
2025.08

　

　
Current Status of Reference Books for the Tibetan and Sanskrit Languages in Education and Research, and Toward Composing Japanese Versions

Yosuke Fujimoto

Workshop: Current Status and Future Prospects for the Use of Digital Tools in Buddhist Studies (Komazawa University) Yosuke Fujimoto; Mai Miyo; Shinya Moriyama; Anju Nagao

Presentation date： 2025.05

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2025.05

　

　
From Āgama to Abhidharma and Back Again: On the Canonical Discourses on Sāsrava and Anāsrava Dharmas in the Sarvāstivāda Tradition

Yosuke Fujimoto

Workshop: Canonical Scriptures and Sarvāstivāda/Yogācāra Abhidharma (Leipzig University) Yosuke Fujimoto; Keiki Nakayama; Beier Wang

Presentation date： 2025.01

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2025.01

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2025.02
The Definitions of Sāsrava by *Dharmaśrī and his Successors

Yosuke Fujimoto [Invited]

(Leipzig) Institute for South and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University

Presentation date： 2024.06

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2024.06

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Sāsrava and anāsrava are two key religious concepts in Buddhism. In general, sāsrava is applied to anything bound to the world of saṃsāra, while anāsrava is used in reference to supramundane things such as nirvāṇa and special knowledges (jñāna) capable of eliminating mental afflictions (kleśa). The Sarvāstivāda, one of the most influential schools of Abhidharma in north India, is renowned for their thorough classification of all factors (dharma) into sāsrava or anāsrava. However, even within this school, there was a difference of opinions regarding the question of what makes factors sāsrava or anāsrava, and defining these two concepts became one of the major doctrinal issues for the later Sarvāstivādins. This presentation will examine the definitions of sāsrava in the hṛdaya treatises, an important series of texts beginning with *Dharmaśrī’s (法勝) *Abhidharmahṛdaya (阿毘曇心論) that often goes unnoticed in scholarship on Indian Buddhism. The presentation will make full use of Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit sources to provide an accurate understanding of the definitions as well as the scriptural background and possible grammatical interpretations.
Doctrinal Systematization in the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma: The Interpretation of the Verb anu-śī- as a Case Example

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 39th Conference of the Association of Buddhist Philosophy

Presentation date： 2023.07
Misunderstandings about the Verb anu-śī-: Abhidharmakośabhāṣya and its Related Texts

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 73rd Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies

Presentation date： 2022.09

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2022.09

　

　
Definitions of the Terms Sāsrava and Anāsrava in the Sarvāstivādin Literature: An Overview of their Development

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 19th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (Seoul National University)

Presentation date： 2022.08
The Problems Involved with Publishing Dharmakīrti's System of Epistemology and Logic in the Nyāyabindu and the Prospect

Mai Miyo, Eiko Kodama, Yosuke Fujimoto

The 2nd Regular Meeting of the Bauddha-Kośa Project in 2022 (International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies)

Presentation date： 2022.03
Reconsidering anu-śī-: How Do the Sarvāstivādins Change the Similes?

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 2nd Regular Meeting of the Bauddha-Kośa Project in 2022

Presentation date： 2022.03
Sāsrava and Anāsrava-dharmas in the Mahāvibhāṣā: A Model of their Development Suggested by the Sarvāstivādin Argument for the purity of the Buddha's Body

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Philosophy at Waseda University

Presentation date： 2021.06
The Verb anu-śī- and the Growth of anuśayas: A Preliminary Report on the Peculiar Terms Used by the Sarvāstivādins

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 2nd Regular Meeting of the Bauddha-Kośa Project in 2021

Presentation date： 2021.03
The Shadow of the Sautrāntika-Dārṣṭāntikas in the Hṛdaya-treatises: Focusing on Upaśānta's Abhidharmahṛdaya 1.4 and its Commentary

Yosuke Fujimoto

Public Symposium 'Summary and Prospect of Bauddha-kośa Project'

Presentation date： 2020.11
The Formation of Sāsrava- and Anāsrava-dharmas: The Sarvāstivādin Argument for the Purity of the Buddha's body and Sūtra 56 of the Saṃyuktāgama

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 1st Regular Meeting of the Bauddha-Kośa Project in 2020

Presentation date： 2020.09
What Makes Something Sāsrava or Anāsrava? With a Special Reference to the Sarvāstivādin View of the Buddha's Body

Yosuke Fujimoto

Research Colloquium at Hamburg University

Presentation date： 2020.07
The Transitional Process of the Sarvāstivādin's Definitions of Sāsrava- and Anāsrava-dharmas

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 1st Regular Meeting of the Bauddha-Kośa Project in 2019

Presentation date： 2019.07
The Verb anu-śī- and Sāsrava-dharmas: Vasubandhu's Rearrangement of the Concepts Involved

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 68th Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Hanazono University)

Presentation date： 2017.09
On the Definition of Sarvatraga-anuśayas

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 67th Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies (The University of Tokyo)

Presentation date： 2016.09
On the Condition of the Elimination of Defilements through Eliminating the Defilements that have the Former as their Object-support

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 66th Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Koyasan University)

Presentation date： 2015.09
The Position of Sarvatraga- and Asarvatraga-anuśayas in the Sarvāstivādin Theory of Anuśayas

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 65th Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Musashino University)

Presentation date： 2014.08
The Framework of Darśanaheya-anuśayas

Yosuke Fujimoto

The 30th Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Philosophy at Waseda University (Waseda University)

Presentation date： 2013.06

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Research Projects

説一切有部における心論系アビダルマ論書の思想史的意義：『阿毘曇心論経』を中心に

日本学術振興会科学研究費助成事業

Project Year :

2023.04

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2026.03

藤本庸裕
A Study of Upasanta's Apitanxin lun jing: Translation and Analysis

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

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2023.04

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2026.03
Thought and Its Genealogy of Gandhāran Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Texts: An Annotated Translation of Upaśānta's Apitanxin lun jing

Waseda University

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2022.04

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2023.03
Toward a Critical Edition and Translation of the Biography of Chag lo tsa ba Chos rje dpal, a Tibetan Monk Travelling in India

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

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2021.08

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2023.03

Yosuke Fujimoto
A Comprehensive Research on the Bauddhakosa Project: Constructing a New Model for the Coming Generation

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

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2019.04

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2022.03

Saito Akira

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The objective of this research project is to take up for consideration the important scriptures and treatises that were originally composed in India, extract the definitions (or rules about their usage) of terms used in those works, and, based on them, establish standard translations in both Japanese and English. The research was executed by the effective use of XML (Extensible Markup Language).
The three years' term of this research from April 2018 to March 2022 has seen its outcome opened to public is three books as well as Website (http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~b_kosha/start_index.html).
A Study of the Biography of Chag lo tsā ba Chos rje dpal, a Thirteenth Century Tibetan Monk-pilgrim

Waseda University

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2021.06

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2022.03
The Origins and Development of the Sarvāstivādin Theory of Defilements: With a Special Focus on Anuśaya

BDK BDK Fellowship for Japanese Scholars

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2019.10

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2020.09
Further Development of the Bauddhakosa: The Creation of Standard Japanese-English Glossary of the Important Buddhist Terms with Their Illustrative Sentences

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

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2016.04

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2019.03

Saito Akira, Muller Charles, Wangchuk Dorji, Harrison Paul, Ye Shaoyong, He Huanhuan, Wang Junqi, Jung Sangkyo, Kelsang Tsultrim, Minowa Kenryo, Ishii Kosei, Watanabe Shogo, Sakurai Munenobu, Baba Norihisa, Niisaku Yoshiaki, Kikuya Ryuta, Nagasaki Kiyonori, Tomabechi Toru, Horiuchi Toshio, Isshiki Daigo, Choi Kyeongjin, Shimizu Hisafumi, Yang Jie, Wang Nan, Liu Chang, Shono Masanori, Kawasaki Yutaka, Nawa Ryuken, Furukawa Yohei, Okada Eisaku, Takatsukasa Yuki, Nakayama Keiki, Yokoyama Takeshi, Miyo Mai, Manabe Tomohiro, Sasaki Ryo, Sato Akira, Hayashi Keijin, Notake Miyako, Fujimoto Yosuke, Michimoto Daisei, Kuranishi Ken'ichi, Otsuka Shigetoshi, Ijuin Shiori

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The objective of this research project is to take up for consideration the important scriptures and treatises that were composed in India, extract the definitions (or rules about usage) of terms used in those works, and, as well as comparing these, establish standard tranalations in both Japanese and English. The research was executed by the effective use of XML (Extensive Markup Language).
The three years' term of this research from 2016 to 2018 has seen its outcome opened to public in five books as well as in the Website (http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~b_kosha/start_index.html). Among those results is The Seventy-five Elements (dharma) of Sarvastivada in the Abhidharmakosabhasya and Related Works which was published in English in 2018.

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Misc

On the Launch of Global Buddhist Studies

Yosuke Fujimoto

Global Buddhist Studies 1 ( 1 ) 1 - 8 2026.03

Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)

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Zur Literaturgeschichite der älteren Yogācāra-Schule

Lambert Schmithausen (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.), Keiki Nakayama (tr.)

Thought and Religions of Asia ( 43 ) 1 - 18 2026.03

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

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This paper is a Japanese Translation of Prof. Lambert Schmithausen's German article, "Zur Literaturgeschichte der älteren Yogācāra-Schule” (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Supplementa I.3, 1969, 811–823).
Asaṅga: Great Systematizer of Yogācāra Thought

Jowita Kramer (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.), Tanaka Hiroaki (tr.)

Global Buddhist Studies 1 ( 1 ) 339 - 367 2026.03

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)

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Some Remarks on Sthiramati and his Putative Authorship of the Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā, *Sūtrālaṃkāravṛttibhāṣya and Triṃśikāvijñaptibhāṣya

Jowita Kramer (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr), Keiki Nakayama (tr.)

Journal of Abhidharma Studies ( 6 ) 45 - 71 2025.11 [Domestic journal]

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Prof. Jowita Kramer's article, “Some Remarks on Sthiramati and his Putative Authorship of the Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā, the *Sūtrālaṃkāravṛttibhāṣya and the Triṃśikāvijñaptibhāṣya” (Buddhist Studies Review 33.1–2: 47–63. © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2016).

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Brief Summary of the Development of Buddhist Monastic Law Codes and Institutions

Petra Kieffer-Pülz (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr), Yukari Kimura (tr.), Kanako Shinga (tr.), Keiki Nakayama (tr.)

Asian Culture and Thought ( 33 ) 43 - 95 2025.01

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Petra Kieffer-Pülz's article, ‘‘Brief Summary of the Development of Buddhist Monastic Law Codes and Institutions,’ Buddhism, Law & Society 6, 2020–2021, 147–185.

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The Sūtra on the Ocean-Like Samādhi of the Visualization of the Buddha: The Interfusion of the Chinese and Indian Cultures in Central Asia as Reflected in a Fifth Century Apocryphal Sūtra, Part 1

Nobuyoshi Yamabe (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr), Yutaka Yasui (tr), Ayumi Okada (tr), Hiroaki Tanaka (tr.)

Asian Culture and Thought ( 33 ) 96 - 264 2025.01

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Nobuyoshi Yamabe's Ph.D. dissertation, “The Sūtra on the Ocean-Like Samādhi of the Visualization of the Buddha: The Interfusion of the Chinese and Indian Cultures in Central Asia as Reflected in a Fifth Century Apocryphal Sūtra,” submitted to Yale University in 1998, pp. 1–124 as well as Introduction, Acknowledgement, Conventions, and Bibliography.

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A Japanese Translation of Takashi Iwata's ‘‘On the Concept of Necessity in Buddhist Texts: From the Perspectives of the Yogācāras and the Buddhist Logical Tradition’’

Takashi Iwata (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.)

Journal of Indian and Tibetan Studies ( 28 ) 189 - 214 2024.12

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata’s article, “On the Concept of Necessity in Buddhist Texts: From the Perspectives of the Yogācāras and the Buddhist Logical Tradition,” which appeared in Hōrin: Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur vol. 11 in 2004.
Self and Other in the Yogācāra Tradition

Nobuyoshi Yamabe (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.), Hiroaki Tanaka (tr.)

Journal of Abhidharma Studies ( 5 ) 79 - 103 2024.12

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Nobuyoshi Yamabe’s article “Self and Other in the Yogācāra Tradition,” which appeared in Essays on Japanese Buddhist Culture: In Honor of Dr. Tensei Kitabatake, on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday in 1998.
The author’s starting point for this study is a series of philosophical questions raised concerning the existence of other minds within the principal framework of the Yogācāra tradition, which is, the consciousness-only. He explores the questions one by one in four sections, based primarily on the two early important Yogācāra works, namely, Vasubandhu’s Viṃśatikā and the Chéng wèi shí lùn 成唯識論, the most seminal work in East Asian Buddhism. The author’s discussion is summarized as follows: As is clearly stated in both works, the Yogācāra school traditionally denies the existence of external objects but presupposes a plurality of other minds (i.e., ālaya-vijñānas), thus recognizing that each person’s mind creates his/her own distinct world. However, this raises a problem of the commonality of people’s perceptions of seemingly external things such as a river or a pot in the room. According to the Yogācāras, people’s common experience of external objects is due to the similarity of their mental streams, which is the result of their shared previous karma. This explains why humans see a river as a stream of water, whereas hungry demons see it as a stream of pus, urine, feces, etc. The Yogācāras further explain that such commonality of people’s perceptions turns upon the mutual influence of people’s minds. A Chinese commentator on the Chéng wèi shí lùn gives the following example: There is a tree as a common object of perception for many people. When one cuts it down, and it disappears from one’s cognitive world, the same tree vanishes in other people’s cognitions because the former’s mind affects the other minds. Physical contact and verbal communication between people are also explained in the same manner, that is, both are reduced to the level of mental interaction. Regarding the perceptibility of other people’s minds, the Yogācāra position is that, as with external matters, other people’s minds only manifest themselves in one’s mind as mental images, and that no one but the Buddha can directly perceive them. Finally, according to the author’s observation, this idealist model of the Yogācāras is likely to have originated not in their theoretical speculation, but in their practical, meditational experience.

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Review of "Sung-Doo Ahn: Die Lehre von den Kleśas in der Yogācārabhūmi. Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien 55. Stuttgart 2003"

Martin Delhey (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.), Keiki Nakayama (tr.)

Asian Culture and Thought ( 32 ) 1 - 11 2024.01

Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Prof. Martin Delhey's "Review: Sung-Doo Ahn. Die Lehre von den Kleśas in der Yogācārabhūmi. Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien 55. Stuttgart 2003,” which originally appeared in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vol. 157, no. 2, 2007, pp. 503–507.
A Japanese Translation of Martin Delhey’s “From Sanskrit to Chinese and Back Again: Remarks on Xuanzang’s Translations of the Yogācārabhūmi and Closely Related Philosophical Treatises”

Martin Delhey (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.), Mai Miyo (tr.)

Journal of Buddhist Studies, Komazawa University ( 54 ) 83 - 117 2023.10

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Martin Delhey’s article “From Sanskrit to Chinese and Back Again: Remarks on Xuanzang’s Translations of the Yogācārabhūmi and Closely Related Philosophical Treatises,” which originally appeared in Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Treatises: Theories and Practices of Translation, edited by Dorji Wangchuk and published in Hamburg in 2016.

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A Japanese Translation of Takashi Iwata’s "On Prasaṅgaviparyaya in Dharmakīrti’s Tradition: Prajñākaragupta and gTsaṅ nag pa"

Takashi Iwata (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.)

Transcultural Studies 11 19 - 37 2022.02 [Refereed]

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata's English article “On prasaṅgaviparyaya in Dharmakīrti’s Tradition: Prajñākaragupta and gTsaṅ nag pa” (Proceedings of the 7th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Graz 1995, vol. 1. Ed. Ernst Steinkellner. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. 427–437).
Review of “Charles Willemen et al. Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism. Handbuch der Orientalistik, zweite Abteilung: Indien; elfter Band. Leiden etc. 1998.”

Martin Delhey (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.)

Asian Culture and Thought ( 29 ) 1 - 8 2021.01

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Martin Delhey's German review “Charles Willemen, Bart Dessein, and Collett Cox: Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism. Handbuch der Orientalistik, zweite Abteilung: Indien; elfter Band. Brill, Leiden - New York - Köln 1998” (Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 94.4–5 (1999), pp. 560–563).
A Japanese Translation of Prasaṅga und Prasaṅgaviparyaya bei Dharmakīrti und seinen Kommentatoren by Takashi Iwata (3)

Takashi Iwata (author), Fujimoto Yosuke (tr.), Miyo Mai (tr.)

Kuwon: Research Papers ( 9 ) 1 - 30 2019.03

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata's Prasaṅga und Prasaṅgaviparyaya bei Dharmakīrti und seinen Kommentatoren (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Heft 31. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1993), pp. 63–89.

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A Japanese Translation of Takashi Iwata's "Ein Aspekt des Sākāravijñānavāda bei Prajñākaragupta (PVBh)"

Takashi Iwata (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.)

Asian Culture and Thought ( 27 ) 22 - 30 2019.01

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata's German article “Ein Aspekt des Sākāravijñānavāda bei Prajñākaragupta (PVBh)” (Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 31-1, 1982, pp. 469–466).

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A Japanese Translation of Prasaṅga und Prasaṅgaviparyaya bei Dharmakīrti und seinen Kommentatoren by Takashi Iwata (2)

Takashi Iwata (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.), Mai Miyo (tr.)

Kuwon: Research Papers ( 8 ) 40 - 66 2018.03

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata's Prasaṅga und Prasaṅgaviparyaya bei Dharmakīrti und seinen Kommentatoren (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Heft 31. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1993), pp. 36–62.

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Bemerkung zur sahopalambhaniyama-Schlussfolgerung Dharmakīrtis und seiner Kommentatoren

Takashi Iwata (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.)

Asian Culture and Thought ( 26 ) 42 - 58 2017.12

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata's German article “Bemerkung zur sahopalambhaniyama-Schlußfolgerung Dharmakīrtis und seiner Kommentatoren” (Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 30-1, 1981, pp. 493–486).

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A Japanese Translation of Prasaṅga und Prasaṅgaviparyaya bei Dharmakīrti und seinen Komenntatoren by Takashi Iwata (1)

Takashi Iwata (author), Yosuke Fujimoto (tr.)

Kuwon: Research Papers ( 7 ) 1 - 31 2017.03

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This paper is a Japanese translation of Takashi Iwata's Prasaṅga und Prasaṅgaviparyaya bei Dharmakīrti und seinen Kommentatoren (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Heft 31. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1993), pp. 1–35.

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Teaching Experience

Sanskrit III and iV

Kokugakuin University
2026.04

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Now
Sanskrit I and II

Kokugakuin University
2025.04

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2026.03
Special Studies in Transcultural Studies: From Abhidharma to Yogācāra

Waseda University
2024.10

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2025.03
Sanskrit III and IV

Kokugakuin University
2024.04

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2025.03
Special Studies in Transcultural Studies: The World of Early Buddhism

Waseda University
2023.10

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2024.03
Early Buddhism

Komazawa University
2023.04

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2024.03
Sanskrit I, II

Kokugakuin University
2023.04

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2024.03
Special Studies in Indian Philosophy: The Literature and Philosophy of the Sarvāstivāda School

Waseda University
2023.04

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2023.09

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Academic Activities

International Workshop: Introduction and Usage of TACL (Classical Chinese Text Style Analysis Program)

Academic society, research group, etc.

Yosuke Fujimoto; Ami Tanaka; Soichiro Takemoto Waseda University

2025.10

　

　
International Workshop: Yogācāra and Abhidharma

Academic society, research group, etc.

Yosuke Fujimoto; Keiki Nakayama Leipzig University

2025.08

　

　

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Generally, the Yogācāra school is understood to focus on spiritual practice, as opposed to the Abhidharma schools, which are known for their emphasis on theoretical elaboration. However, the relationship between the two is not so straightforward, as Yogācāra philosophy is interwoven with Abhidharmic elements.
In this workshop, Prof. Yamabe will first delve into the meditative aspects of Yogācāra philosophy. We will then explore its Abhidharmic dimensions by reading several passages from the Śrutamayī Bhūmiḥ of the Yogācārabhūmi, the most famous and foundational work of the Yogācāra school.
Current Status and Future Prospects for the Use of Digital Tools in Buddhist Studies

Academic society, research group, etc.

Yosuke Fujimoto; Mai Miyo; Shinya Moriyama; Anju Nagao Komazawa University

2025.05

　

　

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Today, highly convenient digital tools and tool books utilizing online environments and AI are being developed one after another, but it is difficult to say that they are being actively developed and used in the field of Buddhist studies education in Japan. In this workshop, we will consider what kind of tools are desirable for Japanese students of Sanskrit and Tibetan, as well as for professionals who teach these languages, share knowledge on the latest digital tools and tool books, and discuss future prospects.
Workshop: Canonical Scriptures and Sarvāstivāda/Yogācāra Abhidharma

Academic society, research group, etc.

Yosuke Fujimoto; Keiki Nakayama; Beier Wang Leipzig University

2025.01

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2025.02

Internal Special Research Projects

ガンダーラ系説一切有部論書の思想と系譜：『阿毘曇心論経』の訳注研究を中心に

2022

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本年度は、３世紀から４世紀の間にウパシャーンタ（優波扇多）によって作成された説一切有部アビダルマの綱要書、『阿毘曇心論経』全10章のうち、第１章を取り上げ、ダルマシュリー（法勝）の『阿毘曇心論』とダルマトラータ（法救）の『雑阿毘曇心論』との比較を行った。特に、昨年度に提出した博士論文の内容を踏まえて、『阿毘曇心論経』の第1章第10偈に説かれる有漏法の定義について、『阿毘曇心論』から『雑阿毘曇心論』に至るまでの心論系論書における展開と、三つの心論系論書における『阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論』との対応関係を確定し、2022年8月にソウル国立大学で行われた国際仏教学会にて、本研究成果を発表した。
13世紀のチベット人巡礼僧チャク・ローツァワ・チュージェペルの伝記の基礎的研究

2021

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本年度は、１３世紀のチベット人学僧チャク・ローツァワ・チュージェペル（Chag lo tsā ba Chos rje dpal, 1197–1264）の伝記（以下、『チュージェペル伝』）全１７章のうち、第１章から第４章冒頭までの翻刻と暫定的な校訂テキストおよび英訳を作成し、関連テキストの調査を行なった。本研究では、ゲッティンゲン大学図書館に所蔵されているラーフラ・サンクリティヤーヤナ将来の写本のデータに加えて、近年TBRCがインターネット上で公開した写本のデータも参照することによって、これまで不鮮明であったテキストの問題のいくつかが解決でき、ゲオルグ・ルーリッヒなどによる先行訳の解釈を大幅に修正することができた。