Nanjo Bunyu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nanjo Bunyu

Japanese academic

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1849

Place of Birth: Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1927

Profession: writer, Sangha, translator, head teacher, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Nanjo Bun'yu (????) (1 July 1849 – 9 November 1927) was a Buddhist priest and one of the most important modern Japanese scholars of Buddhism.
Nanjo was born to the abbot of Seiunji Temple (???), part of the Shinshu Otani sect (?????) of the Higashi Honganji (????) branch of Jodo Shinshu. Nanjo studied Classical Chinese texts and Buddhist doctrine in his youth before being sent to Europe in 1876 to study Sanskrit and Indian philosophy from European scholars, including Max Müller, under whom Bunyu studied in England.
While there he met the Chinese Buddhist Yang Wenhui, whom he helped to acquire some three hundred Chinese Buddhist texts that had been lost in China to be reprinted at Yang's printing house in Nanjing.
He returned to Japan in 1884 and served as a professor or head of a number of Buddhist seminaries and universities until his death.