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. Houben* > > Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology > > *Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite* > > École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres) > > *Sciences historiques et philologiques * > > Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120) > > *johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <[email protected]>* > > *https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben > <https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben>* > > *https://www.classicalindia.info* <https://www.classicalindia.info> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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