1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Fundamental Notions of Indian Religions : Purification of the Soul, Deliverance
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08044012
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Joint Research |
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| Research Field |
印度哲学(含仏教学)
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| Research Institution | KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKATANI Hideaki Faculty of Humanities, KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY,Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (20140395)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKASHIMA Jun Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cu, AA研, 助教授 (40202147)
CAILLAT Colette Institut de France, Academie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres, Membre, 美文学碑文部門, 会員
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1998
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| Keywords | Moksa / Good and Evil Deeds / Purification of Soul / Karman / Jainism / Saivism / Primitive Buddhism / Liberation of Spirit |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this project is to elucidate two fundamental notions of Indian religions, the impurity of soul and the purification from that impurity. The religions selected for the research are Jainism, Buddhism and Saivism.
The karman in Jainism, the trsna in Buddhism and the mala in Saivism, these notions of the impurity of soul originated in a common background of Indian thoughts concerning the inevitable influence of action on the spirit. The later developments of these notions differ according to these three religions, especially by their respective ways of understanding the materiality of the impurity.
The differences and the comimon features of these notions are elucidated in their historical developments, with special attentions paid to the oldest layers of their respective Canons, using the text-databases of Indian Scriptures.
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