Jean-Noël Robert

Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert (born 30 December 1949) is a French orientalist, specialist of the history of Buddhism in Japan and of its Chinese predecessors. His work particularly focus on Tendai and the philology of Sino-Japanese Buddhist texts. He is the author of the French translation of the ''Lotus Sutra'', a seminal text of Mahayana Buddhism, from the original Chinese.

In 2011, he was appointed a professor at the to become the holder of the chair . Provided by Wikipedia