Curriculum Vitae Kengo Harimoto Date of Birth 25 June 1964 Nationality Japanese Gender Male Positions Academic Positions April 2014 current Part-time lecturer at the Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg June 2006 March 2014 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (NGMCP), Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg (Including teaching an advanced Sanskrit course every semester) October 2006 March 2007 part-time position (teaching three courses and administrative), Faculty of Religious Studies and Theology, University of Groningen April 2006 July 2006 Affiliate Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands November 2005 March 2006 Gonda Fellow, International, Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands December 2004 October 2005 Affiliate, Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands August 2002 November 2004 Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands September 2000 July 2002 Visiting researcher at the Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Asien-Afrika-Institute Universität Hamburg, Germany January 2000 May 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Religions, Temple University Others July 2001 July 2002 Chief programmer (CGI, database management, web server), Ears and Eyes, GmbH (internet based marketing research company), Hamburg, Germany September 1997 December 1999 South Asian assistant bibliographer, Library of the University of Pennsylvania. (Cataloging, Website maintenance, and digitizing Sanskrit manuscripts preserved at the Library of the University of Pennsylvania)
Kengo Harimoto 2 Education Ph.D.................................................................................. December 1999 Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Division of School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Completed all the requirements but dissertation....................................august 1995 Graduate School of Kyushu University, Division of Letters, Department of History of Indian Philosophy and Buddhism M.A.......................................................................................March 1990 Graduate School of Kyushu University, Division of Letters, Department of History of Indian Philosophy and Buddhism B.A....................................................................................... March 1987 Nagasaki University, Faculty of Education Publications Monograph God, Reason, and Yoga: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Commentary Ascribed to Śaṅkara on Pātañjalayogaśāstra 1.23 28. Indian and Tibetan Studies, Vol. 1. Published by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, distributed by Biblia Impex. Hamburg 2014. Articles Textual Criticism in the Gopālikā of Parameśvara III on Maṇḍana Miśra s Sphoṭasiddhi. published in Journal of Indological and Buddhist Studies. Vol. 63 (2015). To be Nepalese Manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Journal of Indological and Buddhist Studies. Vol. 62 (2014), pp. 1087 1093. Fragments of a commentary on the Tattvasaṅgraha (pt. II). Written with Kazuo Kano. Journal of the Nepal Research Centre. Vol. 14 (2012), pp. 5 17. In Search of the Oldest Nepalese Manuscript. In The Study of Asia between Antiquity and Modernity. Proceedings of the first Coffee-Break Conference, edited by E. Freschi, et al., Rivista degli Studi Orientali, Nuova Serie, Vol. LXXXIV (2011), Fasc. 1 4, Roma 2012, pp. 85 106. Review: Jürgen Hanneder, editor: The Mokṣopāya, Yogavāsiṣṭha and Related Texts. Geistkultur Indiens, Texte und Studien, Herausgegeben von Walter Slaje unter Mittwirkung von Jürgen Hanneder und Andreas Pohlus, Band 7. Aachen: Shaker Verlag 2005. Pp. 153. ISBN 3-8322-4265-1. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Band 159 (2009), Heft 2, pp. 492 495. Fragments of a commentary on the Tattvasaṅgraha (pt. I). Written with Kazuo Kano. Newsletter of the NGMCP, No. 6, 2008, pp. 16 21. A Fragment of the Āgamaśāstravivaraṇa. Newsletter of the NGMCP, No. 5, 2007, pp. 16 21. Human Sacrifice in Japan, in The Strange World of Human Sacrifice, edited by Jan N. Bremmer, published by Peeters. Leuven 2007. Pp. 229 236. The Original Skandapurāṇa, Lakṣmīdhara and Caṇḍeśvara: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa VIII. Indo- Iranian Jouranal 49, (2006), pp. 23 28. The Date of Śaṅkara: Between the Cāḷukyas and the Rāṣṭrakūṭas. Journal of Indological Studie.
Kengo Harimoto 3 Number 18 (2006), pp. 85 111. Review: Yogasūtrabhāṣyavivaraṇa of Śaṅkara, Vivaraṇa Text with English Translation, and Critical Notes along with Text and English Translation of Patañjali s Yogasūtras and Vyāsabhāṣya, vols. 1 and 2. By T. S. Rukmani. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisheres, 2001. Pp. xxxii + 389; x + 230. Journal of the American Oriental Society 124.1 (2004), pp. 176 180. Some Observations on the Revā- and the Ambikākhaṇḍa of the Skandapurāṇa. In Origin and Growth of the Purāṇic text corpus, with special reference to the Skandapurāṇa, Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Vol. 3.2, edited by Hans Bakker, published by Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi 2004. Pp. 40-63. Appendix: Adhyāyas in the R and A Manuscripts. In Origin and Growth of the Purāṇic text corpus, with special reference to the Skandapurāṇa, Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Vol. 3.2, edited by Hans Bakker, published by Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi 2004. Pp. 137 188. A Critical Edition of the Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa, the First Pāda, Samādhipāda, with an Introduction. Ph.D. Thesis. Philadelphia 1999. Available through UMI. The Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa 3.17, the Sphoṭasiddhi k. 27, and the Brahmasūtrabhāṣya 1.3.28. Journal of Buddhist and Indological Studies, vol. 41-2 (1993), pp. 1136 1138. On the Hairaṇyagarbhayogaśāstra (in Japanese). Journal of Buddhist and Indological Studies, vol. 40-1 (1990), pp. 456 458. (In Japanese) Vivaraṇa-kāra and Maṇḍana Miśra, A Debate around Īśvara (Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa ad 1.23 27 and Vidhiviveka I. kk. 19 24) (in Japanese). In Essays in Honor of Dr. Shoren Ihara on his Seventieth Birthday, Fukuoka 1991. Pp. 471 495. (In Japanese) Online Applications NGMCP Online Title List http://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de:3000 Catalogue Wiki of the Nepalese Manuscripts http://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/wiki/main_ Page Conference Papers/Lectures/Presentations/Intensive courses Testing Bendall s Assessment: The Date of Cambridge UL Add. 1702, at The South Asian Manuscript Book: Material, Textual and Historical Investigations, Workshop at the Faculty of Asian Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, UK, 25 September 2014. Ontological Arguments for God in India, at the 2014 workshop for the research group Investigations into the Discussions on Being in Indian Philosophical Schools in Matsumoto, Japan, 15 September 2014. (In Japanese) Tradition and Textual Criticism: Conjectural Emendations in Ṛṣiputra Parameśvara s Gopālikā? at the 65th Meeting of the Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Musashino University, Tokyo, 30 August 2014. (In Japanese) Old Nepalese Manuscripts of a Medical Text (Susrutasamhita) and History of Science, at CSMC Workshop on What Can the History of Science Contribute to Manuscript Studies or What Can Manuscript Studies Contribute to the History of Science? at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg, 09-10 May 2014. More Observations on the Old Nepalese Manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, at the 20th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Study of the History of Indian Thought, University of Tokyo on 21 December 2013. (In Japanese)
Kengo Harimoto 4 On the Nepalese Manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, at the 64th Meeting of the Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Matsue, 31 August 2013. (In Japanese) In the Eye of the Beholder Manuscript (Parts) as Art Objects, at The Second(ary) Life of Manuscripts, 11 13 July 2013, at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg. Re-use of Texts Among the Commentaries of the Sāṅkhyakārikās, at the 2012 Meeting the Coffee Break Conference Project, Rome, 21 22 December 2012. Publishing Manuscript Catalogues Online an attempt by the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project, at the Second Symposium of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Tokyo, 15 17 September 2012. Intensive course in Sanskrit philology at the Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto, September 2012. Oldest Manuscripts from Nepal, in the panel Manuscript Sources Between Textual Criticism and Codicology, at The Study of Asia: between Antiquity and Modernity, Rome, 10 12 June 2010. Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project, at the CHINDEU Conference on Indian Manuscripts and Their Preservation, held at the French Institute, Pondicherry on 25 26 February 2010. Is Darkness Matter, or Does That Matter? at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, September 2009. Śaṅkara s Date: between the Cālukyas and the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, at the 12th Meeting for the Association for the Study of the History of Indian Thought, Kyoto, December 2005. (In Japanese) Caṇḍeśvara and the Original Skandapurāṇa, at the 215th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2005. The Revākhaṇḍa and the Ambikākhaṇḍa as Recensions of the Early Skandapurāṇa, at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, July 2003. Human Sacrifice in Japan, at Conference Human Sacrifice, January 2003, Groningen. The Author of the Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa in Relation to Maṇḍana Miśra, at the 210th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Portland, Oregon, March 2000. On the Manuscripts of the Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa, at the 209th Meeting of the American Oriental Society in Baltimore, Maryland, March 1999. Vivaraṇa-kāra and Maṇḍanamiśra, Around Sphoṭa at the conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, June 1992. (In Japanese) On the Hairaṇyagarbhayogaśāstra, at the conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Kyoto, June 1990. (In Japanese) Peer review and Project evaluation Peer review for Journal of Indian Philosophy (December 2014) Project evaluation for Austrian Science Fund (January 2015) languages Modern Languages Japanese (mother tongue)
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