Giebel, R.

Rolf Giebel

Rolf W. Giebel was born in Hawera, New Zealand, in 1954. He came to Japan in 1972 and took a B.A. in Japanese at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1977 and an M.A. in Indian Philo­sophy at the University of Tokyo in 1980. After spending three years on the editorial staff of a publishing company in Tokyo, he returned to the University of Tokyo in 1984 and at present con­tinues his studies while working as a translator. Other of his translations include Tibetan Buddhist Art (Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1984), An Introduction to the Buddhist Canon (Tokyo: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, 1984), The Alps (Tokyo: Gyosei, 1986), and a Japanese translation of The Theory and Practice of the Mandala by the late Giuseppe Tucci (Tokyo: Hirakawa Shuppansha, 1984). (Source Accessed July 2, 2020)

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An Introduction to Buddhism (Takasaki)

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This book is based upon notes prepared by the author for general lectures on Buddhism which he has been giving to students at a number of universities in Tokyo since around 1960. The initial version of the present work first saw the light of day as part of a textbook for university students entitled Bukkyo ippan 仏教一般 (Buddhism in General) which was compiled in concert with professors specializing in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism and published by the Department of Buddhist Studies at Komazawa University in Tokyo. Then, at a later date, the author was approached by the Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai (University of Tokyo Press) to write an introductory work on Buddhism for the edification of the general reading public. By permission of the Department of Buddhist Studies at Komazawa University, he accordingly extracted those sections of the above textbook which he had himself written ("Outline of Buddhism" and "Indian Buddhism"), to which he then made some additions and corrections and also appended a brief history of Buddhism covering not only India but also China and Japan. This was then published in 1983 under the title of Bukkyo nyümon 仏教入門 (An Introduction to Buddhism), of which the present work is an English translation. (Takasaki, preface to the English version, iii)

Takasaki, Jikidō. An Introduction to Buddhism. Translated by Rolf W. Giebel. Tokyo: Tōhō Gakkai, 1987. https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/files/2018/06/Takasaki-Jikido_An-Introduction-to-Buddhism.pdf

Takasaki, Jikidō. An Introduction to Buddhism. Translated by Rolf W. Giebel. Tokyo: Tōhō Gakkai, 1987. https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/files/2018/06/Takasaki-Jikido_An-Introduction-to-Buddhism.pdf;An Introduction to Buddhism (Takasaki);Doctrine;History;Shakyamuni Buddha;dharmatā;pratītyasamutpāda;anātman;tathāgatagarbha;ekayāna;triyāna;Jikido Takasaki; ;;;;;;An Introduction to Buddhism

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