A Study of a Newly Found Buddhist Narrative Collection : Stories of Devoted Children who Suffered from Loss of Parents
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19720051
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Japanese literature
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| Research Institution | International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
MINOURA Naomi International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, 文学部, 助教 (70449362)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Keywords | 中世文学 / 仏教説話 / 金剛寺 / 偽経 / 本生譚 / 本地物 / 国文学 / 孝養 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project has focused on a Buddhist narrative collection, which was newly found in Kongo-ji Collection of Sacred Texts, of stories of devoted children who lost their parents. Though these stories share some similar features with Indian Jataka Tales, they are considered to be composed in Japan. With a special reference to the relationship between the composition of Buddhist narrative stories and generation of Buddhist apocrypha in Japan, my research clarified that this collection was accomplished under the influences of the Lotus Sutra and the Golden Light Sutra, in which stories of Bodhisattvas' religious practices in their past lifetimes were narrated in a full length. The results of this research were presented as papers in Setsuwa-bungaku kenkyu, as well as at ICANAS38, among others. At the same time, I developed a study of a different Japanese Buddhist work found in the same collection in Kongo-ji, Hyakugan Shujikan, an important work that shows the concept of Bodhisattva's practices in Heian period. I also used the digital microscope to make a comparative analysis of the paper on which some Buddhist works in Kongo-ji collection were written.
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