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IRIZ Staff, Members, Visiting Scholars

1. Permanent Staff

   • KÔNO Daitsu (Director of the institute since 1998; President of Hanazono University; Zen master of Shôfuku-ji monastery in Kobe )

   • OKIMOTO Katsumi (Associate director of the institute since 1998; Member since 1996; Professor at Hanazono University; Responsible for a section dedicated to research on Chan sources)

   • YANAGIDA Seizan (Lifetime member since 1996; Specially appointed professor 1995; Former director1989-1994; Head of the research group on religious letters; Professor Emeritus of Kyôto University)
     Seizan YANAGIDA

   • NISHIMURA Eshin (Director of the institute from 1996-1998; member since 1988; Professor at Hanazono University ; Responsible for the section on Zen thought; Ph.D. from Aichi gakuin University)
     Eshin NISHIMURA

   • APP Urs (Associate Director 1989-1996; Resident Researcher from 1996; Head of the Zen knowledge base project; Ph.D. from Temple University)
     Urs APP

   • HAYASHI Shinmei (Associate member since 1996; Member 1995; Member of the research group on religious letters; Professor at Hanazono University; Responsible for the organization of public seminars and the cycle of conferences on "Issues Related to Zen and Contemporary Society" that will commemorate the tenth anniversary of this institute )

   • KATÔ Shôshun (Associate member since 1998; Professor at Hanazono University)

   • MURAMOTO Shôji (Associate member since 1998; Professor at Hanazono University; Member of the "Zen Thought in the Contemporary World" research group; Ph.D. from OsakaUniversity)

   • SHORE Jeff; (Associate member since 1998; Associate Professor at Hanazono University; Member of the "Zen Thought in the Contemporary World" research group)

   • TAKENUKI Genshô (Associate member since 1996; Professor at Hanazono University; Responsible for establishing the publication project of The Collection of Texts from the Rinzai School; Ph.D. from Bukkyô University )

   • KAWASHIMA Jômyô (Associate researcher since 1989; Secretary of the research group on religious letters; Lecturer at Hanazono University )
     Jômyô KAWASHIMA

   • KIRCHNER Thomas; (Associate researcher since 1998; Secretary of the Zen knowledge base project)

   • USAMI Sachiko (librarian of the institute since 1993)

   • SAKAI Etsuko (Assistant of the librarian since 1998)

   • FUJIMOTO Kumiko (Research team assistant of the Zen Knowledge Base project since 1992)

   • LIANG Xiaohong (Research team assistant of the Zen Knowledge Base project since 1994)

   • TAKAHASHI Nobumichi (Research team assistant of the Zen Knowledge Base project; Responsible for translations into Japanese since 1995)

2. Former Staff

   • KOBAYASHI Enshô (Member 1988-1996; Professor at Hanazono University)

   • MOHR, Michel (Associate researcher from 1995-97; Secretary of the Zen knowledge Base project; Ph.D. from the University of Geneva; Presently teaching at Kyoto Womens College)

   • MURAKAMI, Shun (Zen Knowledge Base research team assistant between 1991 and 1995; Recipient of Institue Special Research Grant from 1993-95; deceased in June 1995)

   • WITTERN, Christian (Research team assistant of the Zen Knowledge Base project 1992-95; Göttingen Univ.)

   • HOSHI Masae (Classification of the holdings of our library from 1993)

   • FUJIOKA Makiku (library and text data correction; 1993-1995)

   • SHIRAI Yukiko (library work, data correction; 1993-1995)

3. Visiting Scholars and Researchers

   (in alphabetical order)
   • ADAMEK, Wendy (1991-93 Stanford Univ.; presently teaching at the Univ. of Iowa)

   • BARONI, Helen J. (1990-91 Columbia Univ.; presently teaching at the Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa)

   • FOULK, Griffith (1995 Michigan Univ.; presently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College)

   • GRIMM, Claudia (1998; graduate student at Univ. of Kö:ln)

   • KABANOFF, Alexander M. (1994-95 St. Petersburg Institute for Oriental Studies)

   • KRAFT, Kenneth (1990-91; presently teaching at Lehigh Univ.)

   • LI Zhuangying (1990-91; presently teaching at Beijing Univ.)

   • LOBREGLIO, John S. (1992-93; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Campus; presently research fellow at Kyôto Univ.)

   • MALININA Elizabeth (1998; Univ. of Novosibirsk)

   • PAK Hyung Dong (1990-91; Haeinsa Monastic Univ. )

   • PUTHUPARAMPIL Varghese (1998; priest of the Carmelite Order)

   • ROBSON, James (1992-94; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Campus)

   • SHIN Kang Su (1991; Haeinsa Monastic Univ.)

   • VICTORIA, Brian (1996-97; presently teaching at Auckland Univ.)

   • ZHEN Cunfang (1991-92: Shaanxi Agency for Cultural Affairs )

   • ZHEN Jinhua (1994-95; McMaster Univ.)