==Sources==
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* [https://www.icabs.ac.jp/en/about/faculty/deleanu DELEANU Florin | ICPBS]
* [https://www.academia.edu/144598210/SHORT_BIO_AND_LIST_OF_MAIN_PUBLICATIONS Deleanu’s short biography | Academia.edu]
* [https://www.academia.edu/144598210/SHORT_BIO_AND_LIST_OF_MAIN_PUBLICATIONS Deleanu’s short biography | Academia.edu]
* [https://www.art-emis.ro/personalitati/indianistul-florin-deleanu-opera-si-viata Indianistul Florin Deleanu – opera şi viaţa]
* [https://www.art-emis.ro/personalitati/indianistul-florin-deleanu-opera-si-viata Indianistul Florin Deleanu – opera şi viaţa]
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Florin Deleanu (born 1959) is a Romanian-born Buddhist scholar and author. He has taught Buddhist philology and history at the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies (Tokyo, Japan) since 2001.
Deleanu’s research activity, reflected in nearly one hundred contributions, covers a wide range of topics from the history of various Buddhist texts, chiefly linked to meditation in India and China, to the concept of rebirth in South Asia, monastic ordinations in traditional Japan, and language philosophy in ancient China. He identifies his methodology as a philologico-historical approach aiming at the meticulous comparison of the original sources while paying close attention to the historical and cultural context.
Born in Constanţa (Romania) in December 1959, Deleanu studied at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, from 1979 to 1983, where he earned a master’s degree in Chinese and English philology (1983). He worked briefly as translator/interpreter of Chinese while also teaching the Chinese language and culture at the Bucharest Open University from 1983 to 1985.
In 1986, Deleanu settled in Japan where he became naturalised in 1991. He enrolled in the postgraduate programme of the Department of Oriental Philosophy at Waseda University (Tokyo) in 1987, which he continued for the next seven years. At Waseda University, he specialised in Chinese philosophy and religion under Professors Fumimasa Fukui (his academic advisor) and Masayoshi Kobayashi while also pursuing the study of Indian languages and Buddhism under Professors Jikidō Takasaki and Takashi Iwata. He received his master’s degree from the same university in 1991 and completed the doctoral programme in 1994.
From 1994 to 1995, he taught as part-time lecturer of English and Oriental philosophy at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University.
From 1994 to 2001, he served as professor of English and philosophy at the Department of Liberal Arts at Kansai Medical University (Osaka).
In 2001, Deleanu began teaching Buddhist philology and history as reader at the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies (ICPBS), becoming tenured professor in 2003. In 2009, he was appointed director of the International Institute for Buddhist Studies affiliated to the same university. In 2023, he was chosen president of the ICPBS.
In 1996, Deleanu met Lambert Schmithausen (now professor emeritus) of Hamburg University at a conference on An Shigao in Leiden, Netherlands. During his studies at Waseda University, he had often read and heard about Professor Schmithausen from Takashi Iwata (now professor emeritus), who had completed his doctorate under the famous German scholar.
While continuing to teach at Kansai Medical University, Deleanu enrolled in the doctoral programme of the Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Hamburg, in 1998. Under Professor Schmithausen’s supervision, he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Laukikamārga section of the Śrāvakabhūmi Book of the encyclopaedic treatise Yogācārabhūmi. He received his doctorate in Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies from the University of Hamburg in 2005.
Deleanu also taught Buddhist studies as visiting professor at Oxford University (UK), Stanford University (USA), Hamburg University (Germany), University of California, Berkeley (USA), Tokyo University (Japan), etc.
Following is a list of Deleanu’s main contributions. Most of the publications are posted on Academia, ResearchGate, and the Repository of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies.
- The Chapter on the Mundane Path (Laukikamārga) in the Śrāvakabhūmi: A Trilingual Edition (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese), Annotated Translation, and Introductory Study. Tokyo: The International Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2006. (2 vols., 680 pp.). Reissued online in 2015.[1]
