Born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1974, Kenichi Kuranishi (倉西憲一) took both a B.A. (1997) and M.A. (1999) at Taishō University. He was awarded a doctorate from Tōhoku University in 2008. His doctoral thesis is entitled “A study on the literature of the Yamāri cycle” (in Japanese).
Since 2008, he has been studying at the University of Hamburg as a post-doctoral research fellow of the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). His main research subject is “A study on the Buddhist tantric manuscripts of medieval India: the literature of the Yamāri cycle.”
Publications
| 2008 | ‘Śrīdhara and his works on the Yamāri cycle’ (in English), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, pp.179–183, Koyasan University. |
| 2004 | ‘A study on the relationship between the Kṛṣṇayamāritantra and the Raktayamāritantra‘ (in English), in Indogaku Syosisou to Sono Syūen: Bukkyō Bunkagakkai Jyussyūnen, Hōjō Kenzō Hakase Koki Kinen Ronbunsyū (Volume in Honour of Professor Kenzō Hōjyō on his Seventieth Birthday) pp.61–68, Sankibō Busshorin, Tokyo. |
| 2000 | ‘The Caturyoga in the Kṛṣṇayamāritantra: Kumāracandra’s Explanations’ (in Japanese), Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies Vol.47–1 [97] pp.137–139, The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies. |
| 1999 | ‘Study of the Acintyādvayakramopadeśa (1): Introduction’ (in Japanese), Ronshū 26, pp.1–11, The Association for Indology and Study of Religion. |
| 1999 | ‘On the idea of the Mahāsukha in the Grub pa sde bdun‘ (in Japanese), Journal of Research Society of Buddhism and Cultural Heritage Vol. 8, pp.38–49, The Research Society of Buddhism and Cultural Heritage, 1999. |
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