Naiqi Li

Designated Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University*Profile is at the time of the award.

2025Inamori Research Grants

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Research topics: Research for the Construction and Publication of the "Ancient Buddhist Dictionary Database"

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Summary: This research will cross the academic fields of Japanese linguistics, Chinese linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, humanities information science, Buddhist studies, and Dunhuang studies, and will conduct an integrated study using ancient Buddhist dictionaries held in various parts of the world. Specifically, we will construct and publish a “Database of Ancient Buddhist Dictionaries” and focus on the differences in the translated words of Buddhist scriptures by period, region, and sect, and examine the spread of Buddhist scriptures throughout Asia and the methods of translating Buddhist scriptures.

Comment

The civilizations in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent, the region known as Asia, have been shaped mainly by the exchange and fusion of Indian and Chinese character cultures. However, there have been very few studies that empirically examine Asian civilizations from the perspective of the history of language exchange. In this study, we will take up the challenge of elucidating the history of exchange and fusion between the Indian cultural sphere and the Kanji cultural sphere, a historical issue in the history of Asian language exchange, by using linguistic historical documents as the research object.