Profile

Professional career

• since 01/2023
  Director of research project "Mission as laboratory: Attempts to overcome competing world interpretations in Japanese translations of the early Jesuit mission" (funded by the DFG)
• since 11/2020
  Affiliate Professor
• since 08/2023
  Director of research project "Mission as Laboratory: Attempts to Overcome Competing World Interpretations in Japanese Translations of the Early Jesuit mission"
• 01/2020 - 12/2022
  Director of research project "Japan's Translated Religion: : Christianity, Transculturality and Translation Cultures in the 16th-17th Century", Priority Program of the German Research Foundation (SPP 2130) "Early Modern Translation Cultures"
• 10/2018 - 12/2019
  Director of research project "Intercultural Perspectives on Religion and the Diversification of Nutrition Styles", research cooperation on "Sustainable Nutrition Styles" funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture and the Volkswagenstiftung, Leibniz University Hannover
• 04/2018 - 09/2018
  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", Leipzig University
• 10/2017 - 03/2018
  Academic Visitor, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
• 04/2016 - 10/2016
  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", Leipzig University
• 10/2016 - 09/2018
  Associate Fellow at the Center for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), University of Göttingen
• 11/2012 - 09/2016
  Professor for The Study of Religions (East Asian Religions), Department for East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
• 04/2009 - 03/2010
  Interim Professor for East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Department for Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, LM University of Munich
• 03/2007 - 09/2012
  Senior Lecturer, Department for the Study of Religions and Curator of the Religionskundliche Sammlung (Marburg Museum of Religion), University of Marburg
• 04/2006 - 09/2006
  Interim professor for the Study of Religions, Philipps University Marburg
• 09/2005 - 03/2007
  Research Associate at the Department for the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London
• 09/2004 - 08/2005
  Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions, SOAS, University of London
• 08/2002 - 07/2004
  Postdoctoral research associate (100%), research project "Notions of Fate and Life Management in Contemporary Japanese Religions" funded by the German Research Foundation, Philipps University Marburg

Education

• 07/2020
  Habilitation, Study of Religions (Marburg)
• 07/1996 - 10/2002
  PhD student in the Study of Religions, Philipps University Marburg (magna cum laude)
• 10/1997 - 03/1998
  Doctoral stipend, Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stiftung, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo
• 05/1997 - 09/1997
  Doctoral Fellow at the Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute, Ōtani University, Kyoto
• 11/1991 - 03/1993
  Year Abroad, Buddhist University (Bukkyō daigaku), Kyoto, and Language School Kawarajuku
• 10/1987 - 06/1996
  MA in Study of Religions, Japanese Studies (Linguistics), Tibetan Studies and Social/Cultural Anthropology, Philipps University Marburg

In my current research project “Mission as laboratory: Attempts to Overcome Competing World Interpretations in Japanese Translations of the Early Jesuit Mission" I explore, on the basis of Japanese translations from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, how Jesuits and Japanese converts dealt with competing world interpretations in an effort to create a new order of knowledge and values for a Catholic Japan that was to be uniform and harmonious. The focus of the research is on the translation into Japanese of compendia written in Latin, produced in the years 1593-1595 especially for the mission to Japan. The translated compendia are available in the form of manuscripts in European collections and will be examined in the project, also considering later sources, with regard to normative and cognitive ideas of the body and associated bodily practices.

The project is funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

• Triplett, K.

  Religion and Medicine in Premodern Japan

  In: Stanley-Baker, M. (Ed.)

  Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia. Methodological Insights and Innovations. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2023. pp. 94–127.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526160027.00012
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• Triplett, K.

  Tradierung und Ausdifferenzierung religiösen und medizinischen Wissens im frühmodernen Japan am Beispiel der Ärzte Dōsan, Gensaku und Furusawa Gentai

  In: Deeg, M.; Freiberger, O.; Kleine, C.; Kollmar-Paulenz, K. (Eds.)

  Grenzen der Religion. Säkularität in der Asiatischen Religionsgeschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht . 2023. pp. 281–306.

  ISBN: 978-3-525-50037-8
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• Triplett, K.

  Buddhism and Medicine in Japan: A Topical Survey (500-1600 CE) of a Complex Relationship

  Berlin : De Gruyter. 2019.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110576214
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• Triplett, K.

  Translation Policies, Material Book Culture, and the Contempt for the World in the Early Jesuit Mission in Japan

  In: Flüchter, A.; Gipper, A.; Greilich, S.; Lüsebrink, H.-J. (Eds.)

  Politiken des Übersetzens / Translation Policy and the Politics of Translation. Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler. 2024. pp. 173–201.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67339-3_9
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• Triplett, K.

  Deviation from the System of “Nourishing Life”: Religious Innovation in Japan

  AЯGOS: Perspectives in the Study of Religion (Special issue „Towards a Global History of Religion: Reflections on Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz’s „Lamas and Shamans“. 2024. 3 (2). pp. 109–116.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.argos.2024.4761
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more publications

• Religion and Culture in Japan

  Class, Marburg University 2023

• The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Buddhism

  Class, Marburg University 2022

• The Asian Buddhist Traditions

  Lecture, Marburg University 2021

• Religions in Japan

  Class, repeatedly, last at Leibniz University Hannover in 2017/18

• Buddhism and Law

  Class, Leibniz University Hannover 2017/18

• Religions in Asia

  Lecture (co-taught with Fritz Heinrich and Robert Stephanus), University of Münster 2017

  
  

• Religion, Science, Magic

  Class, repeatedly, last at Leibniz University Hannover 2016/17

• Intellectual History of China I: Confucianism

  Lecture, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2016

• Buddhist Texts (set texts)

  Class, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2016

• Religion and Literature: Texts of the Near and Far East in Translation

  Class, Göttingen University 2016

• Intellectual History of China III: Buddhism

  Lecture, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2015/16

• Modern China: Transformation Processes and Areas of Conflict

  Class, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2015/16

• Images of Asian Religions and Cultures (with poster exhibition)

  Class, Göttingen University in 2015

• Asian Myths and Mythology and Their Study

  Class (co-taught with Katrin Killinger), Göttingen University 2015

• Animals Ethics: Agricultural Science and the Study of Religion in Dialogue

  Class (co-taught with Jürgen Hummel and Achim Spiller), Göttingen University 2015

• East Asia and the Power of Sacred Sounds

  Class (co-taught with Birgit Abels),  Göttingen University 2015

• Introduction to the History of Religions

  Class, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2014/15

• Interdiscplinary Lecture: Introduction to Christianity

  Lecture, session on “Christians in Japan”, Göttingen University 2014/15

• From Amida Buddha to Zen Garden: Visual and Material Aspects of Japanese Religions

  Lecture, Göttingen University 2014

• The Imagery of East Asian Buddhism

  Class, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2014

• Religion and Evolution

  Class, Göttingen University 2014

• Oracles, Divination and Life Management in East Asian Religions

  Class, Göttingen University 2013/14

• Indian Religions: Texts of Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs (set texts)

  Class, Göttingen University 2013/14

• Neo-Confucianism in Japan

  Class, Göttingen University 2013

• Religion and Healing: Asian Therapeutics and Concepts of Health

  Class, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2013

• New Religions in Japan

  Class, Göttingen University 2013

• Critical Terms in the Study of Religions

  Class, Göttingen University 2013

• East Asian Buddhist Traditions and Their Study

  Class, repeatedly, last at Göttingen University in 2012/13

• Pilgrimage in China and Japan

  Class, Göttingen University 2012/13

• Japanese Religion and Popular Culture (Film: Isao Takahata's And Hayao Miyazaki's Works)

  Class, Göttingen University 2012/13

• Studies on Religion and Food Culture

  Class (two-term research training), last at Marburg University in 2012

• Hermeneutics

  Class, repeatedly, last at Marburg University in 2012

• Alternative Healing Concepts in Germany: Studies of Religion, Medicine, and Worldview

  Class (two-term research training), last at Marburg University in 2011

• Exhibiting Asian Religions in the Museum

  Class, repeatedly, last at Marburg University in 2010/11

• Shamanism in Asia: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy or Invented Tradition?

  Class, Marburg University 2010

• Image Theory in the Study of Religion

  Class, Marburg University 2010

• Methodological Approaches in the Study of Asian Buddhist Primary Sources

  Research Seminar (Buddhist Studies Doctoral Programme), Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2010

• Shingon: A School of Esoteric Buddhism in Japan

  Class, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2009/10

• Pilgrimage as a Topic in the Comparative Study of Religion

  Class, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2009/10

• Introduction to Japanese Studies

  Lecture (co-taught), sessions on Japanese religions, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2009/10

• Exhibiting Pilgrimage in the Museum

  Class, Marburg University 2009/10

• Zen Buddhism and Nationalism

  Class, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2009

• Myths and the Study of Myths

  Class, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2009

• Problems and Approaches in the Study of Non-European Religions and Cultures (Focus: Early Travelogues)

  Class (co-taught with Christoph Wagenseil), Marburg University 2008/9

• Cosmic Mountains and Islands of Bliss: Conceptions of the World in Cultures and Religions in East Asia

  Class, Marburg University 2007/8

• Alchemy as a Topic in the Study of Religion

  Class (co-taught with Christoph Wagenseil), Marburg University 2007/8

• Preaching and Transmission of Religious Teachings in Asia

  Class, Marburg University 2007

• Comparative Study of Myths and Religious Narratives in Asia

  Class, University of Basel 2006/7

• Introduction to Theories of Myths

  Lecture, Marburg University 2006

• Religion and Healing

  Class, Marburg University 2006

• East Asian Religions in Past and Present

  Class, Marburg University 2006

• Religious Systems of Modern Japan: Rituals and Annual Festivals

  Class, Marburg University 2006

• Japanese Religions

  Centre for the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London, thematic contributions (MA and BA), 2004/5

• Religious Systems in Modern Japan I: E-Learning Unit

  Class (co-taught with Petra Kienle and Michael Pye), Marburg University 2004/5

• Set Texts in the Study of Religion I: Eastern Texts

  Class, Marburg University 2004/5

• Recent Research Literature in Modern Foreign Languages (Focus: Universalism and Culture Difference in Discourses in the Study of Religion

  Class (co-taught with Michael Pye), Marburg University 2004

• Religious Systems in Modern Japan: E-Learning Unit II

  Lecture/Class (co-taught with Michael Pye), Marburg University 2004

• Foundation Myths as a Topic in the Comparative Study of Religion

  Class, Marburg University 2003/04