Religion and Ethics in Early Modern and Modern South Asia: From the Perspective of Gaudiya Vaisnavism

• Project/Area Number: 15K16726
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in general
• Research Institution: Sophia University (2017); Kyoto University (2015-2016)
• Principal Investigator: Okita Kiyokazu 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 助教 (70708627)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: サンスクリット文学 / ヒンドゥー教神学 / 倫理 / インド思想史 / 近世南アジア / 写本研究 / ベンガル地方 / 北インド / ヒンドゥー教 / サンスクリット古典文学 / ヴィシュヌ教 / インド古典文学 / 文献学 / ベンガル文学 / 文芸論 / サンスクリット / インド哲学 / インド古典 / 思想史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I produced (1) an English translation of the rasa section from Singabhupala's Rasarnavasudhakara (fourteenth century); (2) an English translation and a critical edition on the fourteenth chapter from Rupa's Ujjvalanilamani (sixteenth century) and Jiva's commentary (sixteenth century); (3) an English translation of Jiva's Pritisandarbha, Chapters 110 and 111; (4) an English translation of Visvanatha Cakravarti's Svakiyatvanirasavicara. Based on the above mentioned research I was able to trace the development of Rupa's rasa theory as well as its impact on later thinkers. In the final year I organized an international workshop at Oxford University through which I was able to widely disseminate the research findings.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Oxford Center for Hindu Studies/University of Oxford/University of London(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Washington/Columbia University/Brown University(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Madras/Sri Caitanya Prema Samsthana(インド)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Abo Akademi(フィンランド)
• [Int'l Joint Research]
• [Int'l Joint Research] Yale University/University of Washington/Utah State University(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Madras/CPR Institute of Indological Research(インド)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Independent University Bangladesh(バングラデシュ)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Oxford(英国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Hamburg(ドイツ)
• [Journal Article] Ethics and Aesthetics in Early Modern South Asia: A Controversy surrounding the Bhagavata Purana Book X (2018)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Hindu Studies Volume: 22:1 Issue: 1 Pages: 25-43
  • DOI: 10.1007/s11407-018-9223-7
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia (2017)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: Barbara Schuler (ed.) Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan Volume: - Pages: 100-112
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] ヴィヴェーカーナンダ (2017)
  • Author(s): 置田清和
  • Journal Title: インド文化辞典 Volume: - Pages: 226-227
• [Journal Article] From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of A Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia (2017)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: The Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies Volume: 65: 3 Pages: 1066-1072
  • NAID: 130006539171
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Quotation, Quarrel and Controversy in Early Modern South Asia: Appayya Diksita and Jiva Gosvami on Madhva’s Untraceable Citations (2017)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: Elisa Freschi and Philipp Maas (eds.) Adaptive Reuse in South Asian Literatures and Arts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag) Volume: - Pages: 255-280
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] A Vedantic Refutation of Buddhism in Eighteenth Century North India: The Tattvadipika of Baladeva Vidyabhusana (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: Journal of Vaishnava Studies Volume: 25: 1 Pages: 153-162
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Book Review: Neelima Shukla-Bhatt. (2015). Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Asian Studies Volume: 13: 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 245-248
  • DOI: 10.1017/s1479591416000127
• [Journal Article] The Influence of Singabhupala II on Bengali Vaisnava Aesthetics (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: The Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies Volume: 64 Pages: 1081-1087
  • NAID: 110010051238
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Trialogue between Gaudiya Vaisnavism, Deep Ecology, and Catholicism (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Journal Title: Journal of Vaishnava Studies Volume: 24 Pages: 191-204
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] The Number of Bhaktirasa-s: Jiva Gosvami’s Pritisandarbha on Bhagavatapurana 10.43.17. (2017)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: The Bhagavata Purana: Its Histories, Philosophies, and Cultures
  • Place of Presentation: University of Madras and CPR Institute of Indological Research、チェンナイ（インド）
  • Year and Date: 2017-01-06
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A Match Made in Heaven? The Early Modern Views on Krsna’s Relationship with the Gopis of Vrndavana (2017)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: The Building of Vrndavana
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Vaisnava Perceptions of Muslim Authority in Early Modern South Asia: Based on Bengali Hagiographies of Caitanya (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts
  • Place of Presentation: 東京外国語大学本郷サテライト（東京都文京区）
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-11
• [Presentation] Transcultural Dynamics in South Asian Religions (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: Transcultural Dynamics of Asia and Europe: Mobility, Negotiation, and Transformation
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学（京都府京都市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Early Modern South Asia: According to Bengali Hagiographies of Caitanya (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: 日本南アジア学会第29回全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸市外国語大学（兵庫県神戸市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-24
• [Presentation] From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: 日本印度学仏教学会第67回学術大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学（東京都文京区）
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-03
• [Presentation] Singing in Protest: Early Modern Hindu-Muslim Encounters in Bengali Hagiographies of Caitanya (2016)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: Exploring Bhakti: Is Bhakti a Language of Power or of Protest?
  • Place of Presentation: Yale University, ニューヘイブン（アメリカ合衆国）
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-14
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 近世南アジアにおけるサンスクリット宗教詩：ヴィシュヌ教ベンガル派の視座から (2016)
  • Author(s): 置田清和
  • Organizer: 綜合仏教研究所公開講座
  • Place of Presentation: 大正大学（東京都豊島区）
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-07
  • Invited
• [Presentation] A Middle Class Construction of Neo-Vaisnavism in Nineteenth Century Bengal: Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Commentary on the Brahmasamhita (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: The 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies
  • Place of Presentation: 東京外国語大学（東京都府中市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-13
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] After Kashmir: Early Modern Sanskrit Aesthetic Theories in Andhra and Bengal (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Pre-Modern Kashmir 2015
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学（京都府京都市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-24
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Karnataka Connection: Sinhabhupala II’s Influence on Bengali Vaisnava Aesthetics (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: The 66th Annual Conference Conference of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Place of Presentation: 高野山大学（和歌山県伊都郡）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-19
• [Presentation] Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: The XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions
  • Place of Presentation: エルフルト（ドイツ）
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-27
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Karnataka Connection: The Influence of Sinhabhupala II on Bengali Vaisnava Aesthetics (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: 12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India
  • Place of Presentation: ローザンヌ（スイス）
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-19
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Karnataka Connection: The Influence of Sinhabhupala II on Bengali Vaisnava Aesthetics (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: 16th World Sanskrit Conference
  • Place of Presentation: バンコク（タイ）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-29
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Emotions in Hinduism: The Bhakti Traditions (2015)
  • Author(s): Okita, Kiyokazu
  • Organizer: Oxford Center for Hindu Studies Friends Event
  • Place of Presentation: レスター（イギリス）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-06
  • Invited
• [Remarks] International Workshop: The Building of Vrndavana
  • URL: https://buildingvrndavana.wordpress.com/
• [Remarks] Kiyokazu Okita, Sophia University
  • URL: https://kiyookita.wordpress.com/
• [Remarks] Professor Information: OKITA Kiyokazu
  • URL: https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/program/professors_Info/CC/OKITA_Kiyokazu.html
• [Remarks] 京都大学教育研究活動データベース
  • URL: https://kyouindb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/j/yB3aO
• [Funded Workshop] The Building of Vrndavana (2017)