Background
Takasaki, Jikido was born on September 6, 1926 in Tokyo. Son of Jikijo and Yukie (Hanabusa) Takasaki.
(The Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is...)
The Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is the only Indian treatise devoted to the Mahayana doctrine of Tathagatagarbha, or the notion that all beings possess within themselves the virtues and wisdom of a Tathagata, or Buddha, albeit in embryonic form (garbha). The present work, first published in 1966 and here reprinted for the first time, provides the only complete English translation of this important text.
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Takasaki, Jikido was born on September 6, 1926 in Tokyo. Son of Jikijo and Yukie (Hanabusa) Takasaki.
Bachelor, University Tokyo, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, University Poona, 1959. Doctor of Letters, University Tokyo, 1972.
Lecturer, Komazawa U., Tokyo, 1957-1968;
associate professor, Komazawa U., Tokyo, 1968-1969;
associate professor, Osaka (Japan) U., 1969-1975;
associate professor, U. Tokyo, 1975-1976;
professor, U. Tokyo, 1977-1987;
president, Tsurumi U., Yokohama, Japan, since 1992. Member Science Council Japan, 1991-1994. Board directors Toho Gakkai, Tokyo, chairman, since 1991.
Director Japanese Association Indian and Buddhist Studies, since 1977.
(The Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is...)
Married Hiroko Umemura, March 3, 1957. Children: Tadamichi, Naoshige.