| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen (Tibetan: rDzogs chen), i.e. “the Great Perfection,” forms a unique synthesis, considered as the supreme vehicle in the Tibetan School of the Ancients and in the indigenous Bon tradition of Tibet. The goal of the present project was to elucidate rDzogs chen’s highest views by focusing on its original theory of the “three gnosis.” These three inseparable qualities of “essence,” “nature,” and “compassion” describe the deepest levels of reality and of mind.
By analyzing primary texts, collecting oral explanations in fieldwork, and examining its philosophical meaning, this research has examined how this model represented an original synthesis of Indian Buddhist thought in Tibet. In particular the research was centered on the great philosopher who systematized the system of Dzogchen, Longchenpa Rabjampa (Klong chen rab ’byams pa, 1308-1364), in connection to his own sources, and influence on later authors.
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