| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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| Research Abstract |
As overhang style Buddhist halls(kakezukuri) distinguished in the San-in district often compound with caves, they seem to be the downsized Chinese grottoes. Because their building age was not clear, we excavated the innermost sanctum ruins of Mani-temple located in Tottori-city. As a result, we proved that ancient people not only dug a huge rock and made the cave halls for enshrining Buddhist images, but also built a kakezukuri on the leveled ground in front of the huge rocks after the latter half of the Heian era. Besides, we inspected the grottoes in the course of the Mahayanist Buddhism imported from India to China, we compared a Japanese cave type Buddhist hall with the Chinese grottoes. As a result, we proved that what we have named B-2a type, Irimoya-zukuri worship hall attached to rock cave from the front side, most resemble the grottoes in north China. On the other hand, B-2b type that is independent kakezukuri in the cave, is similar to Ganlu-temple in Fujian Province, South China. We measured Ganlu-temple at September, 2012. In addition, we inspected the cave monasteries in Myanmar, Laos and Bhutan, and we mention the similarity between West India stone cave ruins with the oldest evidence and the cave monasteries of Sthavira Buddhism.
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