Maruyama Hiroshi丸山宏

Style & Daoist names

Maruyama Hiroshi

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1955 — ?

Role

Daoist ScholarsProfessor, University of Tsukuba

Birthplace

Japan

Life

Maruyama Hiroshi is a Japanese scholar of Daoism, professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, who studies Daoist ritual and Zhengyi Daoism in Taiwan. From the 1980s he studied ritual under Zhengyi Daoist masters in Tainan, Taiwan, and wrote A Historical Study of Daoist Ritual Documents (2004; Chinese translation published around 2019), which takes as its subject the "ritual documents" (memorials, petitions, and other liturgical texts) of the Zhengyi altars of Tainan, examining the historical evolution of ritual documents by combining the Daoist Canon with field data; it is a representative work in the study of Daoist ritual documents. He has also taken part in the activities of the Japanese Society of Taoist Studies and served as its president. The above is publicly available academic information. He has collaborated for many years with European scholars such as Kristofer Schipper and John Lagerwey and Taiwanese scholars such as Lee Fong-mao, jointly advancing the comparative study of Zhengyi ritual.

Contributions & Influence

• Studied Daoist ritual documents, and wrote A Historical Study of Daoist Ritual Documents
• Documented the Zhengyi ritual tradition of Tainan
• Collaborated with European and Taiwanese scholars to advance the comparative study of Zhengyi ritual

Works

• Dōkyō Girei Bunsho no Rekishiteki Kenkyū (Historical Studies on Daoist Ritual Documents)