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Overlapping cosmologies of pre-modern Asia

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K01118
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Sociology/History of science and technology
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

Mak Bill  京都大学, 白眉センター, 特定准教授 (50747863)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 武田 時昌  京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (50179644)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) Yano Michio  京都産業大学, 名誉教授 (40065868)
Research Collaborator Ueda Masahiro  京都大学, 非常勤講師
Umebayashi Seiji  熊本県立大学, 名誉教授
Okada Masahiko  天理大学, 教授
Kobayashi Hiroyuki  中部大学, 准教授
Sasaki Satoshi  大阪府立大, 特別研究員
Shimizu Hiroko  大正大学, 講師
Bai Yunfei  大阪府立大学, 客員研究員
Hiraoka Ryuji  熊本県立大学, 准教授
Maehara Ayano  関西大学, 非常勤講師
Miyajima Kazuhiko  中之島科学研究所, 研究員
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords科学史 / 宇宙科学 / 文化交流史
Outline of Final Research Achievements

1. Collection of research materials: A number of field surveys on extant astral documents were conducted in China, Japan, India, Nepal and Thailand. Together with a close examination of the Pingree’s archive at Brown University and the American Philosophical Society, findings were reported in 5 journal articles and 19 conference talks.
2. Interdisciplinary scholarly network: Members of the Buddhist Astronomy Research Seminar仏教天文研究会 (founded at Doshisha University in 2003) completed the analysis of Entsuu's astronomical treatise 佛國暦象編 (2015-2017). Furthermore, as an effort to promote exchange among Japanese and international scholars in the field, a number of conference panels and conferences were organized, with most notably the three-day Kyoto University Symposium held in October, 2017: Traditional Sciences in Asia 2017 -- East-West Encounter in the Science of Heaven and Earth, where over 30 talks/posters were presented with over 60 participants.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (60 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (8 results) Journal Article (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (34 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 14 results,  Invited: 15 results) Remarks (8 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Emory University/Brown University/New York University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Copenhagen(Denmark)

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] MPIWG(Germany)

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Chulalongkorn University/Thammasat University(Thailand)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] New York University/Brown University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Chulalongkorn University(Thailand)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Samodhana Mandala Institute/Nepal Sanskrit University(Nepal)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] New York University/Brown University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] TithikarmaguNa in GArgIyajyotiSa; Tithi worship according to a number of early sources2018

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Journal Title

      印度學佛教學研究

      Volume: 66.3 Pages: 985-991

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The First Two Chapters of MInarAja’s VRddhayavanajAtaka2018

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Journal Title

      Zinbun

      Volume: 48 Pages: 1-31

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Garga and Early Astral Science in India2017

    • Author(s)
      Geslani Marko、Mak Bill、Yano Michio、Zysk Kenneth G.
    • Journal Title

      History of Science in South Asia

      Volume: 5.1 Issue: 1 Pages: 151-191

    • DOI

      10.18732/h2nd44

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Astral Science of the East Syriac Christians in China during the late first millennium AD2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Journal Title

      Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry

      Volume: 16(4) Pages: 87-92

    • DOI

      10.5281/zenodo.220904

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 天文占書の解題と「天文占書フルテキストテータベース」の意義2016

    • Author(s)
      前原あやの
    • Journal Title

      関西大学東西学術研究所紀要

      Volume: 49 Pages: 79-99

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 中山城山的学問与天文暦算学2016

    • Author(s)
      髙橋綾乃
    • Journal Title

      河北民族師範大学学報

      Volume: 36(3) Pages: 69-76

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 五宮から三垣へ―星座分類の変遷の考察2016

    • Author(s)
      髙橋(前原)あやの
    • Journal Title

      東方宗教

      Volume: 128 Pages: 1-18

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The Transmission of Buddhist Astral Science from India to East Asia - The Gandharan and Central Asian Connections2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Journal Title

      Historia Scientiarum

      Volume: 24-2 Pages: 59-75

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 仏教天文学と「観測理論」―普門円通、佐田介石、禿安慧に触れて―2017

    • Author(s)
      梅林誠爾
    • Organizer
      第7回日韓科学史セミナー
    • Place of Presentation
      全北大学校韓国科学文明学研究所(韓国、全羅北道全州市)
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-25
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The lineage of ‘foreign’ planetary worship in ninth-century China: ritualistic elements of the Qiyao rangzai jue 七曜攘災決2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      2017 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      Toronto, Canada
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-16
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How Greek was Greco-Indian and Greco-Chinese astral science2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Cosmos, East and West: Astral Sciences in South and East Asia and their Interaction with the Greco-Roman World
    • Place of Presentation
      Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, U.S.
    • Year and Date
      2017-02-27
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy2017

    • Author(s)
      Michio Yano
    • Organizer
      Cosmos, East and West: Astral Sciences in South and East Asia and their Interaction with the Greco-Roman World
    • Place of Presentation
      Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, U.S.
    • Year and Date
      2017-02-27
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Brahmins, Monks and Their Astral Lore -- The Origin, Development and Transmission of Greco-Indian Astral Science in South Asia and Beyond2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      -
    • Place of Presentation
      Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, U.S.
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-31
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 「両曜運旋略儀」について―佐田介石の「視實等象儀」との関係の検討―2017

    • Author(s)
      梅林誠爾
    • Organizer
      仏教天文学研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学人文科学研究所
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-20
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Inaugural Otto Neugebauer Lecture in the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill. M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Transmission of Greco-Babylonian planetary science and horoscopy in India and China
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Medieval Chinese descriptions of Sanskrit: Dao'an, Xuanzang, Huili and Yijing2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill. M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Seminar presentation in the working group “Thinking in Many Tongues.” Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Buddhist transmission of GrahamAtRkA and other planetary astral texts2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill. M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Sanskrit inscriptions and manuscripts in Yunnan, a preliminary survey2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill. M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Lecture at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Humanities
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] GArgIyajyotiSaにおけるTithikarmaguNa -- 初期の諸文献にもとづくティティ儀礼2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill. M. Mak
    • Organizer
      日本印度学仏教学会第六十四回学術大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Diglossic continuum in Indian intellectual culture as seen in early jyotiSa works2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill. M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Seminar presentation in the working group “Thinking in Many Tongues” organized by Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Greco-Babylonian astral science in Asia - Patterns of dissemination and transformation2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      京都大学国際シンポジウム:天と地の科学―東と西の出会い
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The “science” of astrology in Thai Buddhism: Past and present2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      SEASIA 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Critical Edition of the JyotiSa Materials of the GargasaMhitA2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      International Seminar - Sanskrit & Shastra Literature: Perspectives & Relevance
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Visualizing time and space through foreign eyes in Medieval China2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Geballe Research Workshop, Asian Representations and Construction of Space (ARCS)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Garga and the Astronomical Chapters of the GArgIyajyotiSa2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      The 228th meeting of the American Oriental Society
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] GargasaMhitA and Vedic astral science in China: Early evidences of foreign transmission of the science of the Heavens from the ‘West’2017

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Joseph Needham Symposium on Early Cultural & Scientific Transmission across Eurasia with China
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Fanyu qianziwen梵語千字文 and Chinese-Sanskrit lexicons2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Workgroup: Thinking in Many Tongues
    • Place of Presentation
      Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Berlin, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-14
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Foreign astrology in disguise: Sources and transmission of Amoghavajra’s Xiuyao jing2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      -
    • Place of Presentation
      SOAS, London, U.K.
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-09
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Monks and magic: Greek and Indian astral divination in Tang China2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      -
    • Place of Presentation
      University California Riverside, U.S.
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Magical science of the West: Foreign astronomy and astrology in Tang China2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      -
    • Place of Presentation
      Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-11
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] タイにおける天文学と占星術2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      タイにおける天文学と占星術
    • Place of Presentation
      Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-20
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Les steles bouddhiques de Pairi Daiza et le royaume medieval de Dali (Yunnan)2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Seminaire <Asie>
    • Place of Presentation
      Universite; Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-04
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Siddham ― Sacred Indian Script in Buddhist Asia2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Oriental Lecture Series 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      Universte catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Buddhist astral science in Asia: Origins, development and current practices2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      -
    • Place of Presentation
      Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Year and Date
      2016-04-29
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Kumarajiva’s astral learning as seen in his translation/compilation of Dazhidulun2016

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      International Seminar on Kumarajiva studies
    • Place of Presentation
      World Buddhist University. Bangkok, Thailand
    • Year and Date
      2016-04-24
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Astral Science from the Near East to China in the late first millennium; Dorotheus in Pahlavi; and Duli Yusi Jing in Chinese2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      SEAC 2015 Annual Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Rome, Italy
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-09
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] La Budhisma Kosmo2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      Internacia Kongresa Universitato (IKU), 100a Universala Kongreso de Esperanto
    • Place of Presentation
      Lille, France
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-25
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Zodiac in South and East Asia: Transformation and interaction with indigenous astral science as seen from textual and iconographical sources2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM)
    • Place of Presentation
      Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-06
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A new edition of the Yavanajaataka based on the newly discovered manuscripts2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      16th World Sanskrit Conference (International Association of Sanskrit Studies)
    • Place of Presentation
      Bangkok, Thailand
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-29
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The astronomical knowledge of the Buddha, sages and foreigners - The Question of Authority in Buddhist Astral Science in South and East Asia2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      The Twelfth Biennial History of Astronomy workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-24
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Greek Astral Science in China: Nestorians, Perso-Arabs, and the Jesuits2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      19th Asian Studies Conference Japan
    • Place of Presentation
      Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-20
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Legacy of Greek Astral Science in China, Japan and Southeast Asia (poster presentation).2015

    • Author(s)
      Bill M. Mak
    • Organizer
      International Workshop on Traditional Sciences in Asia 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto University, Kyoto
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-17
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 京都大学国際シンポジウム:天と地の科学―東と西の出会い

    • URL

      http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ictsa2017/

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 仏教天文学研究会

    • URL

      http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mak/buttenken/schedule.html

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 仏教天文学研究班:円通の『仏国暦象編』会議記録

    • URL

      http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mak/buttenken/record.htm

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 『佛國暦象編』のWeb化

    • URL

      http://www.kanripo.org/text/KR3f0057/000#01a

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] ICTSA 2017 Conference

    • URL

      http://wdc2.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ictsa2017/committees.html#

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Bill M. Makの天文学論文

    • URL

      http://www.billmak.com/astronomy/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 東アジアの宗教文化と自然学/仏教天文学研究班

    • URL

      http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mak/index

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] アジア伝統科学国際ワークショップ:古今の宇宙観 2015

    • URL

      https://iwtsa.wordpress.com

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] 京都大学国際シンポジウム:天と地の科学―東と西の出会い2017

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] International Workshop on Traditional Sciences in Asia 2015 (IWTSA 2015)2015

    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto University
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-17
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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