Research field (2)：
Philosophy - Chinese, Indian, Buddhist
, Sociology/history of science and technology
Research keywords (3)：
Indology
, Buddhist Studies
, History of Science
Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：
2015 - 2018 Overlapping cosmologies of pre-modern Asia
Papers (18)：
Bill Mak. The First Two Chapters of Mīnarāja’s Vṛddhayavanajātaka. Zinbun. 2018. 48. 1-31
Bill Mak. Tithikarmaguṇa in Gārgīyajyotiṣa - Tithi worship according to a number of early sources. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies. 2018. 66. 3. 985-991
Geslani, Marko, Bill M. Mak, Michio Yano, Kenneth Zysk. Garga and early astral science in India. History of Science in South Asia. 2017. 5. 1. 151-191
Bill Mak. Matching Stellar Ideas to the Stars: Remarks on the Translation of Indian jyotiṣa in the Chinese Buddhist Canon. Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation. 2016. 139-158
Bill Mak. The foreign astral science in medieval China and Japan - Seven planetary weekdays and horoscopy. Zhongyin guanxi yanjiu de shiye yu qianjing. 2016. 137-152
Gargasaṃhitā and Vedic astral science in China - Early evidences of foreign transmission of the science of the Heavens from the ‘West’
(Joseph Needham Symposium on Early Cultural & Scientific Transmission across Eurasia with China 2018)
Garga and the Astronomical Chapters of the Gārgīyajyotiṣa
(The 228th meeting of the American Oriental Society 2018)
Visualizing time and space through foreign eyes in Medieval China - From the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna to Amoghavajra’s Xiuyao jing
(Geballe Research Workshop, Asian Representations and Construction of Space (ARCS) 2018)
The edition of Gargasaṃhitā and its relation to the Buddhist astral texts
(2018)
The transmission of Buddhist astral science across Asia
(2018)
2014/09 - 現在 Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities / Hakubi Center for Advanced Research Associate Professor
2013/09 - 2014/08 JSPS / Kyoto Sangyo University Research Fellow
2013/05 - 2013/09 Kyoto University Department of Indological Studies Part-time lecturer/Foreigner Research Associate
2011/01 - 2012/04 The University of Hong Kong Centre of Buddhist Studies Visiting Assistant Professor
Awards (1)：
2015/11 - History of Science Society FHS Asia Essay Prize
Association Membership(s) (4)：
International Association of Sanskrit Studies
, International Association of Buddhist Studies
, JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
, ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF INDIAN THOUGHT
