Sakaino Satoru 境野哲

Sakaino Satoru 境野哲 さかいの・さとる (1871-1933) was a prolific Japanese scholar and author of Buddhist history whose works were influential in China.

Biography

Sakaino was a priest in the Ōtani sect 大谷派 of the Jōdō Shinshu 真宗 Japanese Buddhist tradition. As a child he read Inoue Enryō 井上圓了 (1858-1919) which sparked an interest in Buddhism, and later in 1894 he was involved with the periodical Bukkyō Shirin 佛教史林 (Histories of Buddhism) published by Murakami Senshō 村上專精 (1851-1929).^[1] After studying at Tetsugakukan University 哲学館大學 (present-day Tōyō University 東洋大學) where he majored in Buddhist history, Sakaino lectured at Tetsugakukan and Sōtōshū University 曹洞宗大學 (present-day Komazawa University 駒澤大學).

In 1900 he founded the periodical Shimbukkyō 新佛教 (New Buddhism), which was used as a platform for the Shin Bukkyō dōshikai 新佛教同志會 (New Buddhist Association) of which he was a member. Other members included Watanabe Kaikyoku 渡辺海旭 (1872-1933) who helped publish the Taishō canon 大正新修大藏經, and Takashima Beihō 高嶋米峰 (1875-1949), a scholar of Buddhism.

Important Works

Cover page from Shina bukkyōshi kō 支那佛教史綱 (Outline History of Buddhism in China)

Note: This list uses traditional Sino-Japanese characters for book titles; other references may use the post-1946 shinjitai 新字體 forms.

• Shimbukkyō 新佛教 (New Buddhism) (periodical)
• Nihon bukkyōshi yō 日本佛教史要 (Essential History of Buddhism in Japan). 1901
• Indo bukkyōshi kō 印度佛教史綱 (Outline History of Buddhism in India). 東京: 森江書店, 1905
  • Published in Chinese as Yìndù Fójiào shǐ 印度佛教史. Translated by Huìyuán 慧圓. Shànghǎi: Shànghǎi Fóxué shūjú 上海佛學書局, 1935?
• Shina bukkyōshi kō 支那佛教史綱 (Outline History of Buddhism in China). 東京: 森江書店, 1907
  • Published with revisions in Chinese as Zhōngguó Fójiào shǐ 中國佛教史. By Jiǎng Wéiqiáo 蔣維喬. Shànghǎi: Commercial Press 商務印書館, 1929.
• Hasshū kōyō kōwa 八宗綱要講話 (Lectures on Essentials of the Eight Schools). 東京: 丙午出版社, 1916
  • This work appeared in translation serialized in the Chéngdū Fōhuà xúnkān 佛化旬刊(成都) from Sept. 1925 to May 1926
• Tendai shikyōgi kōwa 天台四教儀講話 (Lectures on the Outline of the Four Tiantai Teachings). 東京： 丙午出版社, 1919
• Shina Bukkyō shi kowa 支那佛教史講話 (A Discussion of the History of Buddhism in China). Tōkyō 東京: 共立社, Shōwa 2 (1927).
• "Zui Tō izen no Chūgoku bukkyō" 隋唐以前之中國佛教 (Chinese Buddhism before the Sui-Tang Period). Doctoral Dissertation, Komazawa University 駒澤大學, 1930
• Nihon bukkyōshi kōwa 日本佛教史講話 (Lectures on the History of Buddhism in Japan). 東京: 森江書店, 1931
• Bukkyō kenkyū hō 佛教研究法 (Method of Studying Buddhism). 東京: 大東出版社, 1931
• Bukkyō gaku gairon 佛教學槪論 (General Treatise on Buddhist Studies). 東京: 境野黃洋博士遺稿刊行會, 1936 (Published posthumously)
• 印度中國佛教史要
• 佛教史論
• 聖德太子之研究
• 戒律之研究
• 中國佛教史之研究
• 日本佛教發達概說
• 中國佛教精史

Notes

1. ↑ For more on these and related figures, see James E. Ketelaar, "The Non-Modern Confronts the Modern: Dating the Buddha in Japan," History and Theory (Vol. 45, No. 4, Theme Issue 45: Religion and History, Dec., 2006):67-69. On Murakami see Japanese Wikipedia article on 村上專精

References

• Fóguāng Dictionary Editing Committee 佛光大辭典編修委員會, Fóguāng dàcídiǎn 佛光大辭典 (Foguang Dictionary) (Gāoxióng county 高雄縣: Fóguāng chūbǎnshè 佛光出版社, 1988), p. 5767.
• Ketelaar, James E. "The Non-Modern Confronts the Modern: Dating the Buddha in Japan". History and Theory, Vol. 45, no. 4 (Dec., 2006), 68.
• Suganuma Akira. "The New Buddhism Movement and the Educational Idea of the Tetsugakukan--Sakaino Koyo and Takashima Beiho". Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 49.1 (2000)
• Wikipedia (Japanese Edition), Article on 境野哲