Education
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Imaeda graduated from the Otani University Faculty of Letters, where he studied with Shoju Inaba, under whose advice he pursued graduate studies in France, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Paris VII.
今枝 由郎
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Imaeda graduated from the Otani University Faculty of Letters, where he studied with Shoju Inaba, under whose advice he pursued graduate studies in France, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Paris VII.
He is director of research emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. He began work at the National Center for Scientific Research in 1974. Between 1981 and 1990, he worked as an adviser to the National Library of Bhutan Bhutan.
In 1995, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has also held a visiting appointment at Columbia University.
His research has focused on Dunhuang Tibetan documents, but he has also translated the poems of the VI Dalai lama, and produced a catalog of Kanjur texts.