Masatoshi Ueki

Masatoshi Ueki
Masatoshi Ueki
Born	1951
Academic background
Alma mater	Ochanomizu University (Ph.D.); Kyushu University
Doctoral advisor	Hajime Nakamura
Academic work
Discipline	Buddhist studies
Notable works	The Lotus Sutra ; The Vimalakirti Sutra;

Masatoshi Ueki (植木雅俊, Ueki Masatoshi, born 1951) is a Japanese scholar in Buddhist studies.

Ueki works with the original Buddhist texts (such as Sanskrit and Pali), which encompass the diachronic history of Buddhism, from Early Buddhism to Mahayana sutras (e.g., the Lotus Sutra and the Vimalakirti Sutra), including an analysis of Chinese and Japanese translations of the sutras.

Career

Ueki is a researcher in Buddhist thoughts. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and graduated from Kyushu University (Bachelor of Physics, Master of Science). From 1979, he worked as a journalist (fine arts and literature), and in 1992, he was awarded "Cosmos, rookie of the year" on his story "Circus girl."

From 1991, he studied under Professor Hajime Nakamura at the Eastern Institute. In 2002, Ueki received his Ph.D. (Humanity) from Ochanomizu University (with the thesis entitled「仏教におけるジェンダー平等の研究──『法華経』に至るインド仏教からの考察」[Gender equality in Buddhism: An analysis of Indian Buddhism, [from Early Buddhism] to ‘the Lotus Sutra'])[1][2] In 2008 to 2013, Ueki is an adjunct lecturer at Center for the Studies of World Civilizations, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has also taught at NHK cultural center and Asahi culture center

In 2008, Ueki published “Bon-Kan-Wa Taisho Gendaigo Yaku, Hokekyo",[3] 1st and 2nd volumes (『梵漢和対照・現代語訳　法華経』（上・下）, [The Lotus Sutra: A contrastive translation between Sanskrit-Chinese-Japanese], which consist of 1) Sanskrit texts, 2) Chinese translation by Kumarajiva, and 3) Japanese translation by the author).[4] With this work, Ueki won the Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Sho.[5]

He also translated ‘the Vimalakirti Sutra’, which was found in Potala Palace, Tibet, in 1999, into modern Japanese, and published “Bon-Kan-Wa Taisho Gendaigo Yaku, Yuimakyo"[6] (『梵漢和対照・現代語訳　維摩経』, [The Vimalakirti Sutra: A contrastive translation between Sanskrit-Chinese-Japanese]), and won the Papyrus Award in 2013.[7]

Lotus Sutra (2008)
Vimalakirti Sutra (2013)

In 2017, Ueki contributed a column serious to the Nishinippon Shimbun, entitled "Bukkyo 50 wa"(『仏教５０話』[50 Buddhist stories] ).[8] Ueki intended to introduce and explain Buddhism for a broad audience easily with daily concepts or common sense.

In 2018, April, Ueki is talking as a commentator on the NHK broadcasting program "100 Pun de Meicho"[9] (『１００分de名著』[An introduction to a masterpiece of literature within 100 minutes]).

Ueki is a member of The Japan P.E.N Club, The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, and Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy.

Talks


Date	Venue	Original title	Temporary English title
2018/12/22	Nishogakusha University	インド仏教の日本文学への影響――短歌・俳句を中心に	The influence of Indian Buddhism on Japanese literature: Tankan and Haiku as an example
(1)2018/4/2 (2)2018/4/9 (3)2018/4/16 (4)2018/4/23	NHK (TV broadcast)	「100分de名著」名著７５『法華経』	An introduction to a masterpiece of literature within 100 minutes, No. 75. The Lotus Sutra
2017/7/2	The Japan Science Society[10]	原始仏教における知と信	Faith and knowledge in Early Buddhism
2017/3/15	Ikegami Honmon-ji	元政上人の詩歌と仏教	Poems by Gensei shōnin[11] and Buddhism
2015/7/11	Embassy of India, Tokyo	日本文学に見る大乗仏教の影響――短歌、俳句を中心に	The influences of Mahayana teachings on Japanese literature - Tanka and Haiku as cases
2014/6/15	Japan poet Association The H award ceremony	お釈迦さまも詩人であった	The Buddha is also a poet
2014/2/23	The Papyrus Award commemorative speech	私の学問人生	My study life
2013/7/26	Soka University	絶妙だった鳩摩羅什訳ーーサンスクリット語から『法華経』『維摩経』を翻訳して[12]	The excellence in Kumārajīva's translation - The Lotus sutra and the Vimalakirti Sutra from Sanscrit
2013/1/20	NPO Tokyo Jiyu Daigaku	仏教との出会いと、その後	An encounter with the Buddhism, then ...

Publication

Publication in English

• Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture（with Robin Wang and Makiko Ueki）Hackett Publ. Inc., Massachusetts, 2003[13]

• Gender Equality in Buddhism, Asian Thought and Culture series vol. 46, Peter Lang Publ. Inc., New York, 2001[14]

Translation

・Therigatha[15] (2017)

・The Vimalakirti Sutra (2011)

・The Lotus Sutra (2008)

Books

(some major works by Ueki)

Original title	Temporary English title	Date	Publisher
江戸の大詩人元政上人－京都深草で育んだ詩心と仏教	A great poet of Edo era, Gensei Shounin - Deepening the heart of poet and Buddhism in Kyoto Fukakusa	2018	CHUOKORON-SHINSHA, INC.
差別の超克――原始仏教と法華経の人間観	Against decriminalization: The perspectives on humanity in the early Buddhism and the Lotus sutra.	2018	Kodansha Ltd.
法華経 2018年4月 (100分 de 名著)	The Lotus Sutra: April 2018 (An introduction to a masterpiece within 100 minutes)	2018	NHK Publishing
人間主義者、ブッダに学ぶ――インド探訪	Learning from Buddha as a Humanist －Visiting and searching India	2016	Gakuge Mirai Sha
本当の法華経(橋爪大三郎との対談)	The truth of the Lotus Sutra(Discussions with Daisaburo Hasizume)	2015	Chikuma
仏教学者　中村元――求道のことばと思想	Hajime Nakamura, A Buddhist scholar - Seeking the truth in words and thoughts	2014	_Kadokawa
思想としての法華経	The Lotus Sutra as philosophical thoughts	2012	Iwanami
仏教、本当の教え――インド、中国、日本の理解と誤解	The truth of teaching in Buddhism - Understandings and misunderstandings in India, China, and Japan	2011	Chuokoron Shinsha

Columns

『仏教５０話』(50 Buddhist stories) (2017) Nishinippon Shimbun.

50 Buddhist stories

No.	Original title	Temporary English title	Date
1	紆余曲折	Twists and turns	2017/9/12
2	自分で考える	Thinking by yourself	2017/9/13
3	乞眼のバラモン	Eye-begging Brahman	2017/9/14
4	言葉が出来上がる！	Words developed!	2017/9/15
5	中村先生の励まし	Encouragement by Prof. Nakamura	2017/9/18
6	"人間ブッダ"の探求	Seeking "the Buddha as a human"	2017/9/20
7	釈尊の平等思想	Shakyamuni's idea of equality	2017/9/21
8	悟りを表明する女性	Women expressing her enlightenment	2017/9/22
9	女性の自立と財産権	Independence of woman and property rights	2017/9/25
10	女性の知恵第一	A woman of a top master of Wisdom	2017/9/26
11	"無我"という誤訳	"Anatta(non-self)" as a misinterpretation	2017/9/27
12	自己との対決の必要性	Necessity to confront one's self	2017/9/28
13	"真の自己"の探求	Seeking "the true self"	2017/9/29
14	インド訪問	Visiting to India	2017/10/2
15	「成仏」は人格の完成	"Enlightenment" as a perfection of character	2017/10/3
16	タゴールの思想	Tagore philosophy	2017/10/4
17	如実知見の困難さ	Difficulty of "perceiving reality as it is"	2017/10/5
18	過去を引きずらない	Overcoming the past	2017/10/6
19	盲信を否定する	Deny of blind faith	2017/10/11
20	釈尊の遺言	Shakyamuni's testament	2017/10/12
21	民主的な会議	Democratic meeting	2017/10/13
22	ブッダの神格化	Deification of the Buddha	2017/10/16
23	教団の権威主義化	Authoritarianism by the order	2017/10/17
24	莫大な布施と蓄財	Enormous donation and savings	2017/10/18
25	大乗の"差別思想"	Discrimination by "the Great Vehicle"	2017/10/19
26	法華経の平等思想	Equality preached in the Lotus Sutra	2017/10/20
27	怨みを捨ててこそ	Throwing away a grudge	2017/10/23
28	最後の講義	The last lecture	2017/10/24
29	自作の戒名	A posthumous Buddhist name by themselves	2017/10/25
30	法華経の導きか？	A guidance by the Lotus sutra?	2017/10/26
31	日系二世の菩薩道	A life as the Bodhisattva by a second generation Japanese	2017/10/27
32	龍女の成仏	Enlightenment of Naga princess	2017/10/31
33	ジェンダーフリー？	Gender free?	2017/11/1
34	葬式のおまじない？	Incantatory for funeral?	2017/11/2
35	納得できる訳を	Translation with full understanding	2017/11/3
36	掛詞が表す寛容思想	Tolerance expressed by pivot words	2017/11/6
37	宗派を超える視点	The viewpoint beyond each sect	2017/11/7
38	仏塔か経典か？	Stupa or sutra?	2017/11/8
39	聖地信仰への反省	Reflection to holy land faith	2017/11/9
40	人と法	People and the law	2017/11/10
41	巨大化した如来	Giant growth of Thus come one	2017/11/14
42	ブラックホール	Black hole	2017/11/15
43	ゼロと巨大数	Zero and large numbers	2017/11/16
44	白川義員さん	Mr. Yoshikazu Shirakawa	2017/11/17
45	報恩	Repaying kindness	2017/11/20
46	菅原文太さん	Mr. Bunta Sugawara	2017/11/21
47	偶然的必然	Accidentally but the inevitable	2017/11/22
48	『等伯』	Tohaku	2017/11/23
49	忘れ去られた詩人	A forgotten poet	2017/11/27
50	今を生きる	Living now	2017/11/28

Others

See Japanese profile

Footnotes

"Theses | Ochanomizu University, The graduate school of human cultures（Ph.D.）Gender studies". www.dc.ocha.ac.jp. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
He is the first man who was conferred Ph.D. from Ochanomizu University
"梵漢和対照・現代語訳　法華経".
This includes a large number of notes which discussed more than 500 issues in the previously published Lotus Sutra Japanese translation published by Iwanami and Chuo Koron Sha
"World of Literary prize".
"梵漢和対照・現代語訳　維摩経".
"The Papyrus Award". www.sekizaidan.sakura.ne.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-02-01.
"Next column series:「50 Buddhist stories」Masatoshi Ueki".
法華経 2018年4月 (100分 de 名著).
"木魂（こだま）する科学とこころ".
He influenced on the poets in Edo period, including Matsuo Bashō.
"Soka Kyoiku No7, pp.27-61" (PDF).
Robin., Wang (2003). Images of women in Chinese thought and culture : writings from the pre-Qin period through the Song dynasty. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 9780872206519. OCLC 51878289.
Ueki, Masatoshi (2001). Gender equality in Buddhism. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820451336. OCLC 44516683.
"テーリー・ガーター尼僧たちのいのちの讃歌".

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[1] "Theses | Ochanomizu University, The graduate school of human cultures（Ph.D.）Gender studies". www.dc.ocha.ac.jp. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

[2] He is the first man who was conferred Ph.D. from Ochanomizu University

[3] "梵漢和対照・現代語訳　法華経".

[4] This includes a large number of notes which discussed more than 500 issues in the previously published Lotus Sutra Japanese translation published by Iwanami and Chuo Koron Sha

[5] "World of Literary prize".

[6] "梵漢和対照・現代語訳　維摩経".

[7] "The Papyrus Award". www.sekizaidan.sakura.ne.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-02-01.

[8] "Next column series:「50 Buddhist stories」Masatoshi Ueki".

[9] 法華経 2018年4月 (100分 de 名著).

[10] "木魂（こだま）する科学とこころ".

[11] He influenced on the poets in Edo period, including Matsuo Bashō.

[12] "Soka Kyoiku No7, pp.27-61" (PDF).

[13] Robin., Wang (2003). Images of women in Chinese thought and culture : writings from the pre-Qin period through the Song dynasty. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. ISBN 9780872206519. OCLC 51878289.

[14] Ueki, Masatoshi (2001). Gender equality in Buddhism. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 9780820451336. OCLC 44516683.

[15] "テーリー・ガーター尼僧たちのいのちの讃歌".