Medicine and Buddhism along the Silk Road: A Multilingual Approach to the Transmission from India to China via Central Asia

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23KK0217
Research Category	Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	Pan Tao 京都大学, 文学研究科, 特定講師 (40961553)
Project Period (FY)	2024 – 2026
Project Status	Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help	¥15,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,540,000)
Keywords	Tocharian / Buddhism / linguistics / Khotanese
Outline of Research at the Start	This project investigates Tocharian medical and esoteric Buddhist texts, Tocharian Buddhism and Buddhist terminology by incorporating multilingual sources including Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan and Khotanese medical corpora within an international joint research framework.