Prof. Fujii's photo looks nice. On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, 21:46 Shrikant Bahulkar, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I too feel very sad at the ununexpected and shocking news of Prof. Fujii's > death. Thanks, Asko, for circulating that news and a list of his > publications. Thanks, Jan, for suggesting an addition to the list. > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, 01:43 Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY, < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Very sad to read about the sudden and for me entirely unexpected passing >> away of Professor Masato Fujii. >> A great loss indeed for Vedic Studies and particularly for the study of >> the rare Jaiminiya Sama Veda tradition. >> Thanks, Asko, for this overview of his major publications, which I >> believe is very complete. >> We may still add the abstract of his presentation at the Seventh >> International Vedic Workshop in Dubrovnik (2019) printed on p. 25 of the >> book of abstracts, "Vedic *aghalá-/akhala-*", in which he refers to all >> Vedic occurrences of this rare word as well as to the opinions of other >> scholars (including the opinion which Willem Caland gave in his *Over en >> uit het Jaiminiya-Bramana* [Amsterdam 1915, in Dutch], viz. that it >> refers to Rudra). There was perhaps a handout, and it is to be hoped that >> he has prepared and sent his contribution for publication in the >> forthcoming proceedings of the Dubrovnik International Vedic Workshop. >> Condolences to his family, colleagues and students. >> >> I attach a photo of Masato Fujii speaking at the Third International >> Vedic Workshop that took place in Leiden (30 May - 2 June 2002), where he >> presented the paper "The Bodily Recovery after Death (JUB 3,20-28)" (cp. >> his 2011 article "The recovery of the body after death: A prehistory of the >> devayāna and pitṛyāna") >> (Don't know whether this picture gets through Indology list filters.) >> >> Jan Houben >> >> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 at 12:20, Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I received from Professor Mieko Kajihara (Tokyo) the sad news that >>> Professor Masato Fujii passed away yesterday, the 11th of October 2024. >>> Having worked closely with Masato for decades, I personally feel his >>> passing as a great and painful loss, for he was a wonderful colleague and >>> friend. >>> >>> Masato Fujii was Professor of Indology at the Institute for Research in >>> Humanities, Kyoto University from 1993 to March 2020, when he retired at >>> the age of 65. Soon afterwards he was diagnosed to have kidney cancer, and >>> he spent long periods in the hospital as the doctors were able to control >>> the cancer to some extent. Eventually, however, his cancer spread to liver >>> and could no longer be checked. >>> >>> Masato studied Sanskrit, Buddhism and Indian Philosophy at the >>> University of Osaka under Professor Noritoshi Aramaki. Aramaki suggested >>> the Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa and its contribution to Indian philosophy >>> as the themeforf Masato’s doctoral research. Aramaki also suggested that in >>> preparation for this task, Masato should study Sāmaveda and its ritual. >>> >>> Masato spent the academic year 1984-85 as my student at the University >>> of Helsinki. We translated into English the Jaiminīya-Śrautasūtra and its >>> commentary by Bhavatrāta, a Brahmin from Kerala who lived around 700 CE. In >>> 1985 Masato was part of my research team studying the Gṛhya rituals of >>> Jaiminīya Sāmaveda and photographing manuscripts of texts belonging to this >>> Vedic school in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. We continued hunting, documenting >>> and photographing Jaiminīya manuscripts and history together during many >>> years until 2006, mostly with Japanese funding obtained by Masato, who >>> published our cumulative results in 2012. A detailed catalogue of the texts >>> photographed in 2002-2006 was published in 2016. After our Jaiminīya >>> project was over, Masato continued documenting the Nampūtiri Vedic >>> traditions in Kerala with his Japanese colleagues, focusing now of the >>> Vādhūla school earlier documented by Yasuke Ikari. >>> >>> In 2004, Masato took his doctoral degree at the University of >>> Helsinki with a thesis entitled *The Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa: A >>> study of the earliest Upaniṣad, belonging to the Jaiminīya Sāmaveda. *The >>> official opponent was Professor Henk Bodewitz (Leiden/Utrecht). The thesis >>> comprised a number of his penetrating papers related to this text, which >>> remained the main topic of his research until the very end. His truly >>> monumental critical edition, annotated translation and study of the >>> Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa has been “almost ready for publication” already >>> a long time, and will now come out posthumously. >>> >>> >>> Bibliography >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1984. On the unexpressed gāyatra-sāman in the >>> Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa. *Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies >>> (Indogaku bukkyōgaku kenkyū)* 32 (2): 1123-1121. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1986. The Bahiṣpavamāna ritual of the Jaiminīyas. >>> *Machikaneyama >>> Ronso (Philosophy)* 20 (12), Osaka University: 3-25. [An annotated >>> English translation of JŚS 1,10-11 and Bhavatrāta's commentary.] >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1987. The Gāyatra and ascension to heaven >>> (Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa 1,1-7; 3,11-14). *Journal of Indian and >>> Buddhist Studies (Indogaku bukkyōgaku kenkyū) *35 (2): 1005-1002. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1988. Three notes on the Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa >>> 3,1-5. *Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku bukkyōgaku >>> kenkyū)* 37 (1): 1002-994. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1989. Saishoki-upanishaddo-bunken no seiritsu to densho >>> [On the formation and transmission of the Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa]. >>> *Machikaneyama >>> Ronso (Philosophy)* 23 (12), Osaka University: 13-25. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1990. Nidōsetsu no seiritsu — kōkivēda no saiseisetsu. >>> [The formation of the Devayāna and Pitṛyāna theory.] *The Journal of >>> the Nippon Buddhist Research Association* 55: 43-56. >>> >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1991. The Brahman priest (Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa >>> 3,15-19). *Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku bukkyōgaku >>> kenkyū)* 39 (2): 1054-1050. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1994. On the textual formation of the Nīlamata-Purāṇa. >>> Pp. 55-82 in: Yasuke Ikari (ed.), *A study of the Nīlamata: Aspects of >>> Hinduism in ancient Kashmir. *Kyoto: Institute for Research in >>> Humanities, Kyoto University. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1997. Kena-Upaniṣad (= Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa 4,10 >>> [4,18-21]). Pp. 821-842 in: *Imanishi Junkiihi kyojukanreki kinen >>> ronshoo: Indo shishoo to bukkyoo bunka *(Collected essays in memory of >>> the 60th anniversary of Professor Imanishi Junkiihi: Indian Philosophy and >>> Buddhist culture.) Tokyo: Shunjuusha. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1997. On the formation and transmission of the >>> Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa. Pp. 89-102 in: Michael Witzel (ed.), *Inside >>> the texts, beyond the texts: New approaches to the study of the Vedas. >>> *(Harvard >>> Oriental Series, Opera Minora, 2.) Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Sanskrit >>> and Indian Studies, Harvard University. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1999. The gâyatra: chanting innovation and Sâmavedic >>> textual development. Paper read at the Second International Vedic Workshop, >>> Kyoto 31 Oct 1999 (handout 7 pp.) >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 1999. A common passage on the supreme prāṇa in the three >>> earliest Upaniṣads (JUB 1,60 - 2,12; BĀU 1,3; ChU 1,2). *Zinbun: Annals >>> of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University,* 34 (2): >>> 51-86. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2001. The Brahman priest in the history of Vedic texts. >>> Pp. 147-160 in: Klaus Karttunen & Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), >>> *Vidyārṇavavandanam: >>> Essays in honour of Asko Parpola.* (Studia Orientalia, 94.) Helsinki: >>> The Finnish Oriental Society.. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2004. *The Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa: A study of the >>> earliest Upaniṣad, belonging to the Jaiminīya Sāmaveda.* (Publications >>> of the Institute for Asian and African Studies, 4.) Helsinki: Institute for >>> Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki. 200 pp. Ph. D. >>> dissertation, University of Helsinki. 200 pp. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2009. The Kena-Upaniṣad and its succeeding portions in >>> the Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa. Paper read at the 14th World sanskrit >>> Conference, Kyoto, 1-5 September, 2009. Handout of 3 pp. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2009-2010. The Gāyatra-Sāman: Chanting innovations in the >>> Sāmavedic Brāhmaṇas and Upaniṣad. *Zinbun: Annals of the Institute for >>> Research in Humanities, Kyoto University,* 42: 1-37. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato 2010. Kodai-Indo ni okeru Ōken to Girei. Pp. 114-117 in: >>> N. Nara and M. Shimoda (eds.), *Bukkyō Shutsugen no Haikei. *Tokyo: >>> Kōsei-Shuppan. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2011. The Sāmavedic śākhā backgrounds of the >>> Jaiminīya-Upaniṣad-Brāhmaṇa and the Chāndogya-Upaniṣad: A comparison. Paper >>> read at the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest 20-23 Sept 2011. >>> Handout 2 pp. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2011. The recovery of the body after death: A prehistory >>> of the devayāya and pitṛyāna. Pp. 103-120 in: Bertil Tikkanen & Albion M. >>> Butters (eds.) 2011. *Pūrvāparaprajñābhinandanam: East and West, Past >>> and Present. Indological and other essays in honour of Klaus Karttunen.* >>> (Studia Orientalia 110.) Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental Society. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2012. The Jaiminīya Sāmaveda traditions and manuscripts >>> in South India. Pp. 99-118 in: Saraju Rath (ed.), *Aspects of >>> manuscript culture in South India. *(Brill's Indological library, vol. >>> 40.) Leiden: Brill. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, & Asko Parpola 2016. Manuscripts of the Jaiminīya >>> Sāmaveda traced and photographed in 2002-2006. Pp. 127-162 in: Asko Parpola >>> & Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), *Vedic investigations.* (Papers of the >>> 12th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 1.) Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2016. The Veda and the Nampūtiri society. Paper read at >>> the Kickoff International Symposium "Brahmanism and Hinduism: Change and >>> continuity in South Asian society and religion - prolegomena", Kyoto 11 >>> March 2016. Handout 4 pp. >>> >>> >>> Fujii, Masato, 2020-2021. Soma and Surā: The Sautrāmaṇī in the Vedic >>> kingship rituals. Journal of Indological Studies 32 & 33: 1-20. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Jan E.M. 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