Background
Hajime Nakamura was born on the 28th of November, 1912 in Matsue, Shimane, Japan, the son of Kiyoji Nakamura and Tomo Nakamura.
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educator lexicographer philosopher translator
Hajime Nakamura was born on the 28th of November, 1912 in Matsue, Shimane, Japan, the son of Kiyoji Nakamura and Tomo Nakamura.
Hajime Nakamura studied at the University of Tokyo in 1936.
Hajime Nakamura became an instructor at Komazawa College, a Buddhist institution. In 1943, he was appointed as an assistant professor and then as a professor in 1954 at the University of Tokyo until 1973.
After retiring from Tokyo University, Hajime established Toho Gakuin, The Eastern Institute, and lectured on philosophy to the general public.
Nakamura published more than 170 monographs, both in Japanese and in Western languages, and over a thousand articles.
Hajime Nakamura was most known in Japan as the first to translate the entire Pali Tripitaka into Japanese. This work is still considered as the definitive translation to date against which later translations are measured. Because of his meticulous approach to the translation he had a dominating and lasting influence in the study of Indic Philosophy in Japan at a time when it was establishing itself throughout the major Japanese universities. He received an Imperial Award of the Japan Academy for The History of Early Vedanta Philosophy, a slightly revised version of his doctoral thesis. In 1977, he earned the Order of Culture. He had an honorary degree of Vidya-Vacaspati by President of India Doctor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
Hajime Nakamura was a member of the Japan Academy of Sciences.
Hajime Nakamura was married to Rakuko Nakamura.
