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Nobuyoshi Yamabe

Nobuyoshi Yamabe received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999 with a dissertation entitled The Sūtra on the Ocean-Like Samādhi of the Visualization of the Buddha: The Interfusion of the Chinese and Indian Cultures in Central Asia as Reflected in a Fifth Century Apocryphal Sūtra. Currently teaching at Waseda University, he works mainly on Yogācāra Buddhism in India and East Asia, as well as meditation and visualization in Central Asia. Together with Fumihiko Sueki, he published The Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation: Translated from the Chinese of Kumārajīva from the BDK in 2009. His recent publications include several articles on the origin of ālayavijñāna, such as: “Ālayavijñāna from a Practical Point of View,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 46 (2):283-319, 2018.

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