Dr. Kenichi Kuranishi

Kenichi Kuranishi was awarded a doctorate from Tohoku University in 2008. His doctoral thesis is entitled “A study on the literature of the Yamāri cycle.” Since 2008, he studied at the University of Hamburg as a post-doctoral research fellow of the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), after which he continued as a research fellow at Taisho University, Japan, where he currently holds a position as part-time lecturer. His main research topic is Tantric Buddhism in India. He is recently interested in the desire-oriented rituals, especially in the Buddhist literatures.

• Forthcoming. “Yantras in the Buddhist Tantras: Yamāritantras and Related Literature.” Puṣpikā (Proceedings for the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium), Oxford, 20p.
• Forthcoming. “Fragments of the Sahajālokapañjikā: A Critical Edition of the IASWR Manuscript.” Tantric Studies 2, Centre for Tantric Studies, Universität Hamburg, 25p.
• 2011. “Note on the classification of Buddhist Tantras: The View of Jinadatta and Śrīdhara.” BuzanKyogakutaikai-Kiyō, pp.111.
• 2008. “Śrīdhara and his works on the Yamāri cycle.” The Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Koyasan University pp.179–183.
• 2004. “A study on the relationship between the Kṛṣṇayamāritantra and the Raktayamāritantra.” Indogaku Syosisou to Sono Syūen: Bukkyō Bunkagakkai Jyussyūnen, Hōjō Kenzō Hakase Koki Kinen Ronbunsyū (Volume in Honour of Professor Kenzō Hōjō on his Seventieth Birthday) pp.61–68, Sankibō-Busshorin, Tokyo.

Further Publications: (external link):

http://tais.academia.edu/KenichiKuranishi