Zuiho Yamaguchi

Zuiho Yamaguchi (山口 瑞鳳, Yamaguchi Zuihō, born 21 February 1926) is a Japanese Buddhologist and Tibetologist. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, where he also took his doctorate degree in Sanskrit in 1954. He also studied in Paris and for many years was a researcher at the Tōyō Bunko. He retired in 1986.

Zuiho Yamaguchi specializes in the history of Tibet and studied include the manuscripts of Dunhuang, but also dealt with other subjects, such as the Tibetan calendar which he published a work in 1973 in Japanese. He also did a thorough investigation of facts surrounding emperor Langdarma, where he challenged the assertion that Langdarma was a persecutor of Buddhism and a supporter of Bon.

Works

• マハーバーラタものがたり 青葉書房, 1957 (学級図書館)
• オーレル・スタイン蒐集チベット語文献解題目録 2冊組、東洋文庫,　1977-78
• 吐蕃王国成立史研究, 岩波書店, 1983
• チベットの仏教と社会　春秋社, 1986
• チベット. 東洋叢書 3. 上. 東京大学出版会. June 1987. ISBN 4-13-013033-1.
• チベット. 東洋叢書 4. 下 (改訂版 ed.). 東京大学出版会. June 2004. ISBN 4-13-013049-8.
• チベット語文語文法 春秋社, 1998
• 「概説」チベット語文語文典 春秋社, 2002
• 「要訣」チベット語文語文典 成田山新勝寺成田山仏教研究所, 2003
• 「評説」インド仏教 哲学史　岩波書店, 2010

Translations

• チベットの文化 R.A.スタン 定方晟共訳 岩波書店, 1971 (増補版 1993)

Essays

• CiNii>山口瑞鳳
• INBUDS>山口瑞鳳

References

• 福田洋一「日本のチベット学10年—山口瑞鳳博士の研究を中心に」『仏教学』36, 1994