Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert 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.
- Occupation
- writer, university teacher, orientalist, japanologist
- Position held
- president
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- December 30, 1949
