Fukui Fumimasa

Fukui Fumimasa[1] (June 6, 1934[2] - May 4, 2017) was a Japanese Buddhist scholar-monk, Sinology scholar and Tendai monk; he was a monk in the second highest grade. He was born in Nikkō, located in Tochigi Prefecture. He was the chief monk at Yuishinin Temple located at Nikkozan Rinnō-ji Temple and was professor emeritus at Waseda University. His father was Fukui Kōjun, and his younger brother was Fukui Shigemasa. Both father and brother are Asian Studies scholars and Tendai Buddhist monks.

Brief history

Fukui was born in Tokyo. He went to Waseda University Honjo Senior High School and specialized in Asian Philosophy at Waseda University's Literature Department. Fukui pursued advanced studies at Waseda and received both his Masters and Doctorate degrees there. He went abroad to study in France and was a student of Paul Demiéville (1894-1979). Fukui later became a professor at Waseda University. Fukui specialized in the historical philology of the Heart Sutra and the theories on the formation of Daoism. In 1991, he was honored with the rank of chevalier in the French Ordre des Palmes académiques for his extraordinary scholastic merit. In 2014, he was honored with the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure. He was a member of the 17th and 18th Science Council of Japan. From 1996 to 2004, he was the eighth president of Waseda University's Young Buddhist Association.[3] (For a detailed introduction to Fukui, please read some of the 48 essays found in "Thought and Ritual in the Asian Cultural Sphere.")

Selected bibliography

Sole author

• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (1987), 般若心経の歴史的研究 [Study of the History of the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya Sūtra (Heart Sutra)] (in Japanese, Chinese, and English), Shunjūsha, ISBN 978-4393111284
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (1991), 欧米の東洋学と比較論 [Study of European and American Oriental Studies] (in Japanese), Ryūbunkan, ISBN 978-4897473147
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (1991), 中国思想研究と現代 [Research into Chinese Thought and Today] (in Japanese), Ryūbunkan, ISBN 978-4897473154
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (1998), 漢字文化圏の思想と宗教 儒教、仏教、道教 [Thought and Religion in the Sinographic Sphere : Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism] (in Japanese), Goyōshobō, ISBN 978-4795253933
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (2000), 般若心経の総合的研究 歴史・社会・資料 [History of Research into the Synthesis of the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya Sūtra (Heart Sutra) : History, Society and Historical Data] (in Japanese), Shunjūsha, ISBN 978-4393112045
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (2000), 道教の歴史と構造 増補修訂 [History of Daoism and its Formation - Revised and Supplemented] (in Japanese), Goyōshobō
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (2002), 漢字文化圏の座標 [The Sinographic Cultural Sphere] (in Japanese, Chinese, English, and French), Goyōshobō, ISBN 978-4896197419
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (2005), 般若心経ドリル [Exercises in the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya Sūtra (Heart Sutra)] (in Japanese), Hitotsubashi Shoten, ISBN 978-4565076007
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (2006), アジア思想概論 [Outline of Asian Thought] (in Japanese), Goyōshobō, ISBN 978-4896197433
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (2008), ヨーロッパの東方学と般若心経研究の歴史 [History of European Oriental Studies and Research into the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya Sūtra (Heart Sutra)] (in Japanese), Goyōshobō, ISBN 978-4896197440

Works co-authored

• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (1984), Makita, Tairyō (牧田諦亮) (ed.), 敦煌と中国仏教　講座敦煌7 [Dunhuang and Chinese Buddhism, Lectures on Dunhuang Volume 7] (in Japanese), 7, Daitō Shuppansha, ISBN 4500004564
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅); Nitta, Daisaku (新田大作), eds. (1991), チャレンジ漢和辞典 [Challenge Chinese–Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fukutake Shoten, ISBN 978-4828804309
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅) (1991), Yamada, Toshiaki (山田利明); Maeda, Shigeki (前田繁樹) (eds.), 道教と中国思想　講座道教 4 [Daoism and Chinese Thought– Lectures on Daoism Volume 4] (in Japanese), 4, Yūzankaku, ISBN 978-4639016946
• Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅), ed. (2003), 東方学の新視点 [New Viewpoints on East Asian Studies] (in Japanese), Goyōshobō, ISBN 978-4896197426

Translations by Fukui Fumimasa

• Gernet, Jacques (1965), La Chine Ancienne 古代中国 [Ancient China] (in Japanese), translated by Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅), (Original language in French), Hakusuisha/Collection Que sais-je?
• Chen, Kenneth Kuan Sheng (1981), The Chinese Transformation of Buddhism 仏教と中国社会 [Buddhism and Chinese Society], The World of Buddhist Culture (叢書・仏教文化の世界) (in Japanese), translated by Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅); Okamoto, Tensei (岡本天晴), (Original language in English), Kinbanasha
• Stein, Rolf (1985), Jardins en miniature d'Extreme-Orient 盆栽の宇宙誌 [The Universe of Bonsai], Asian Culture (アジア文化叢書) (in Japanese), translated by Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅); Myojin, Hiroshi (明神洋), (Original language in French), Serika Shobō, ISBN 978-4796701433
• 大乗仏典　中国・日本篇10　敦煌Ⅰ [Mahayana Buddhist Sutras: Chinese and Japanese works Volume 10, Dunhuang Part 1] (in Japanese), 10, translated by Fukui, Fumimasa (福井文雅); Matsuo, Yoshiki (松尾良樹), (Original language in Chinese), Chūōkōronsha, 1992, ISBN 978-4124026306CS1 maint: others (link)

Notes

References

1. Fukui's monastic name was 'Bunga'.
2. Gendai 2007
3. The Committee 2005

Sources

• Gendai (2004), 現代日本人名録 [Who's who in Modern Japan 2004], Nichigai Associates
• The Committee for the Printing of Collected Essays Commemorating Dr. Fukui Fumimasa's 70th Birthday and Retirement (福井文雅博士古稀・退職記念論集刊行会) (2005), アジア文化の思想と儀礼 [Thought and Ritual in the Asian Cultural Sphere] (in Japanese and English), Shunjūsha, ISBN 978-4393112335

External links

• CiNii>福井文雅 (in Japanese)
• INBUDS>福井文雅 (in Japanese)