Very sad to hear this news. Let us try to continue the great studies and contributions to indological and vedic studies Dr.Pankaja R P
On Sun, 13 Oct, 2024, 9:48 pm Shrikant Bahulkar via INDOLOGY, < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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