Mahābhārata Adhyātma Yoga Sāṃkhya Indian Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / Philosophy and ethics / Indian Philosophy
Academic & Professional Experience
2024/10 - Today The University of Tokyo文学部・人文社会系研究科非常勤講師
2024/04 - Today Toyo UniversityFaculty of LiteratureAssociate Professor
2023/10 - 2024/09 Chuo UniversityFaculty of Policy StudiesPart-Time Lecturer
2023/04 - 2024/03 Keio University非常勤講師
2022/04 - 2024/03 The University of TokyoGraduate School of Humanities and SociologyAssistant Professor
2021/04 - 2024/03 Kyoto UniversityFaculty of LettersPart-Time Lecturer
2021/04 - 2022/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of SciencePost-Doctoral Research Fellow (Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University)
2019/04 - 2021/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceOverseas Research Fellow (University of Naples "L'Orientale," Department of Asian, African and Meditteranean Studies)
2015/04 - 2018/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceDoctoral Research Fellow DC1(Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)
Education
2013/04 - 2019/03 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Department of Indological Studies
2015/09 - 2016/08 Leiden University Graduate School of Humanities
2011/04 - 2013/03 Kyoto University Faculty of Letters Department of Indological Studies
2009/04 - 2011/03 Kyoto University Faculty of Economics
Association Memberships
日本仏教学会 西南アジア学会 American Oriental Society ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF INDIAN THOUGHT JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
Published Papers
The Double Cleasening of Yudhiṣṭhira's Sorrow/Sin: A Study of the Śāntiparvan and the Āśvamedhikaparvan of the Mahābhārata
Kenji Takahashi
Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 72 (3) 973 - 978 2024/03 [Refereed]
Karṇa and Arjuna, and the Future of Mahābhārata Studies: A Review of Michiya Kawajiri, Karṇa and Arjuna: Reading the Heroic Tales of the Mahābhārata. Tokyo: Benseisha, 2022.
Florinda De Simini; Csaba Kiss (ContributorThe dharma of gleaners in the Umāmaheśvarasaṃvāda: Studies on the Śivadharma and the Mahābhārata 2)Napoli: Unior Press 2021/12 9788867192281 255–283
Conference Activities & Talks
The Study of the Mahābhārata in Japan and Its Influence on Contemporary Japanese Culture [Invited]
Kenji Takahashi
Multidisciplinary International Seminar on Globalization and Cultural Identity: Impact and Changes in Indian Society, Bhagalpur National College 2025/04 Keynote oral presentation
The Influence of Sanskrit on Japanese Language and Culture
Kenji Takahashi
Special Lecture at Banaras Hindu University 2025/03 Public discourse
mánas in the Account of Creation in Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10.5.3 [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第24回インド思想史学会 2017/12 Oral presentation
Creation and Mind: From the Ṛgveda to Sāṃkhya [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第9回ヴェーダ文献研究会 2017/10 Oral presentation
śokasthānasahasrāṇi harṣasthānaśatāni ca "hundreds and thousands of joy and fear" [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第68回日本印度学仏教学会 2017/09 Oral presentation
Bridging the Gap between Semantic Elucidation (Nirvacana) in the Sanskrit Tradition and Historical Linguistics [Not invited]
髙橋健二; 川村悠人
10th Next-Generation Global Workshop, “Delineating Borders in a Borderless World.” 2017/09 Oral presentation
The Self as of Mental Existence in the Dialogue between Bhṛgu and Bharadvāja in Mahābhārata 12.175–185. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
9th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium 2017/09 Oral presentation
Adhyātma Discourses in the Kaṭhopaniṣad and in the Mahābhārata. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
8th Dubrovnik International Conference for Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas 2017/09 Oral presentation
The Production of Puruṣa in Taittirīyopaniṣad 2.1 and Rebirth to the Early through pitṛyāṇa-panthā in Chāndogyopaniṣad 5.10.5–6 [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第8回ヴェーダ文献研究会 2017/03 Oral presentation
Adhyātma Teachings in Early Sāṃkhya Yoga Sources. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
Skandapurāṇa Week, 2017/03 Oral presentation
Irregular Lengthening of Vowels at the Seam of Nominal Compounds Ending in Root Nouns in the Ṛgveda. [Invited]
Takahashi Kenji
Indology Nowadays: A Winter School on the Legacy of Paul Thieme 2017/02 Oral presentation
Reconsidering the History of Compositions of Accounts of Creation and Dissolution in Mānavadharmaśāstra 1 and Mahābhārata 12.224–225 [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第23回インド思想史学会 2016/12 Oral presentation
An Early Teaching of Yoga in Mahābhārata XII.188 [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
An Early Teaching of Yoga in Mahābhārata XII.188 2016/12 Oral presentation
Reconsidering the Developments of Accounts of Creation and Dissolution in Mānavadharmaśāstra 1 and Mahābhārata 12.224–225 with Special Reference to Quotations from Vedic Literature [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第7回ヴェーダ文献研究会 2016/09 Oral presentation
Buddhi, ahaṃkāra, manas in the Teaching of Yoga in Mahābhārata XII.203–210. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
International Academic Conference “Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana.” 2016/05 Oral presentation
Mental Principles in the Yoga School: A Historical Perspective [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
8th Annual Middle European Student Indology Conference, 2016/04 Oral presentation
On adhyātma- [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第6回ヴェーダ文献研究会 2016/03 Oral presentation
The Function of Mind (manas) in Creation Accounts in Early Sāṃkhya Sources. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
Lecture given at Ghent University 2016/02 Public discourse
Two Perspectives to Reality in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
7th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, 2015/10 Oral presentation
Wavering Characterizations of Manas in Creation Accounts in Early Sāṃkhya Sources. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第26回西日本インド学仏教学会 2015/07 Oral presentation
Manas as the First Evolute in the Account of Creation in Mahābhārata XII.224¬–225. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
The 16th World Sanskrit Conference 2015/06 Oral presentation
Irregular Lengthening of Short Vowels in the Ṛgveda with Special Attention to Root-Nouns [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
第3回ヴェーダ文献研究会 2014/09 Oral presentation
The Function of Manas in the Creation Theories of Vedic Literature and Early Sāṃkhya. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
The 9th International Intensive Sanskrit Retreat 2014/08 Oral presentation
Irregular Lengthening of Vowels in the Nexus of Nominal Compounds Ending in Root Nouns in the Ṛgveda. [Not invited]
Takahashi Kenji
Kyoto-UCLA Student Workshop on Indo-European 2014/03 Oral presentation