1. Sengaku Mayeda was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his services to the fields of literature and education.
11 Facts About Sengaku Mayeda
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Sengaku Mayeda is a recipient of the Third Order of Merit with the Middle Cordon of the Rising Sun of the Government of Japan, which he received in 2002.
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Sengaku Mayeda was born on 1 April 1931 at Nagoya, in the prefecture of Aichi, in Japan.
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Sengaku Mayeda did his pre graduate studies at the College of General Education, in Tokyo and graduated with BA from the Department of Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, in 1955.
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Sengaku Mayeda continued his post graduate studies at the University of Tokyo and secured his MA from the Department of Indian Philosophy, Division of Humanities, in 1957.
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In 1961, Sengaku Mayeda got the Harrison Research Fellow from University of Pennsylvania.
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Sengaku Mayeda continued as the Professor at the University till 2001 when he gave up on regular teaching.
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Sengaku Mayeda has been a Director of the Indo-Japanese Association since 1983, a post he still holds.
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Sengaku Mayeda was the President of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies for two terms, first from 1991 to 1995 and then from 1998 till 2002.
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Sengaku Mayeda was the Chairman of the Graduate School of Human and Cultural Studies at the Musashino Women's University from 1999 to 2001.
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Sengaku Mayeda worked as a member of the Steering Committee of the Federation Internationale des Societies Philosophie during the period from 2003 to 2008.