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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jean-Noël Robert
- Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert (born 30 December 1949 in Paris) is a French orientalist, specialist of the history of Buddhism in Japan and of its Chinese predecessors.
- His work particularly focus on Tendai and the philology of Sino-Japanese Buddhist texts.
- He is the author of the French translation of the Lotus Sutra, seminal text of Mahayana ?? (great vehicle), from the ancient Chinese text. In 2011, he was appointed a professor at the Collège de France to become the holder of the chair Philologie de la civilisation japonaise.
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