Fumihiko Sueki Explained

Fumihiko Sueki
Birth Date:6 September 1949
Birth Place: Yamanashi
Othername:末木 文美士
Occupation:historian of Japanese Buddhism

[1] is a Japanese academic and historian, and one of Japan's leading scholars of Japanese Buddhism.[2] He is a professor at the in Kyoto.[3] A member of the advisory board of Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture's Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, he is also a contributor to the journal itself.[4]

Early life

Sueki's studies at the University of Tokyo were rewarded with a BA in 1973 and an MA in 1975.[3] In 1994, he earned his Ph.D.; and he joined the faculty in the next year.[5]

Career

From 1995 through 2009, Sueki was a professor at the University of Tokyo.[3] In the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, he taught courses about Japanese Buddhism. His primary area of interest is the reconstruction of the intellectual history of Buddhism in Japan from ancient to modern times.[5]

Since 2009, he has been a professor at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies.[3]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Fumihiko Sueki, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 60+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 500+ library holdings.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Library of Congress authority file, Sueki Fumihiko, n88-289322
  2. Book: Stone, Jacqueline. Jacqueline Stone . [Sueki Fumihiko, Kamakura Bukkyō Keisei ron. Review of Sueki Fumihiko, Kamakura Bukkyō Keisei ron. [147–53]. 2 February 2011--> [147–53]. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.
  3. International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, faculty CV
  4. http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/welcome.htm Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
  5. University of Tokyo, Buddhism and Modern Nationalism, 2005
  6. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities