The Image of the Body in Ancient India: the Buddhist Meditation on the Impure
Project/Area Number |
25370064
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Chinese philosophy/Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
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Research Institution | Kyoto Notre Dame University |
Principal Investigator |
Kritzer Robert 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 人間文化学部, 教授 (70288611)
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Research Collaborator |
Kenney E. R. 関西外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (60368272)
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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Keywords | Indian Buddhism / asubhabhavana / meditation on the impure / Sravakabhumi / Yogacarabhumi / Vibhasa / Indian embryology / Sravakahbhumi |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Asubhabhavana is the Buddhist meditation on impurity. It consists of either a meditation on a corpse in various stages of decomposition or meditations both on a corpse and on the meditator's own body. Two texts that contain some of the most extensive accounts of asubhabhavana are Vibhasa and Sravakabhumi. During the grant period, I translated 52 passages in the Chinese Vibhasa, including one very long, important passage, available in two separate Chinese translations, which I compared in the form of a table. Mine is the first complete English translation of this passage. I also made corrections to the published Sanskrit text of three passages in Sravakabhumi and translated them completely into English, two for the first time. In addition, I made a presentation and published a paper, entitled "Asubhabhavana in Vibhasa and Sravakabhumi," in which I compared passages from the two texts, showing their two different styles of analysis, explanatory in Vibhasa, practical in Sravakabhumi.
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Report
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Research Products
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[Presentation] Ghastly Life in the Womb2015
Author(s)
Robert Kritzer
Organizer
The 5th Congress of Asian and the Pacific Studies
Place of Presentation
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris, France
Year and Date
2015-09-11
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