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My Book on the Buddhist-Insprired Philosophy of Yamauchi Tokuryū
Yamauchi Tokuryū (1890–1982). Western Philosophy and Buddhist Thought
I would like to briefly introduce my book about an unfortunately unknown Japanese philosopher named Yamauchi Tokuyrū 山内得立 (1890–1982).
Born in a Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, he first became a respected specialist in Western philosophy before becoming one of the most original philosophers of the so-called Kyoto School.
Yamauchi was one of Nishida Kitarō’s (1870–1945) students at Kyoto University. From 1920 to 1923, he went abroad and attended both Husserl’s and Heidegger’s seminars at Freiburg (Germany). He is known as the first Japanese philosopher to learn with Heidegger.
He was a well-known specialist in the history of philosophy as well as in comparative philosophy for his questioning of Western philosophy through a dialogue with Eastern philosophy, especially Indian Buddhist thought.
In his major book entitled Logos and lemma 『ロゴスとレンマ』 (1974), Yamauchi presents his own philosophical work as an attempt to bridge the gap between Western and Eastern logics and create a “global system of thought” (sekai teki na shisō taikei 世界的な思想体系 ).
