A Study of Chinese Buddhist Canons/Tripitakas: With Reference to the Chinese Versions of the Ajatasatrukaukrtyavinodana

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K16694
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Chinese philosophy/Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
• Research Institution: Tsurumi University (2019); International Institute for Digital Humanities (2018); Otani University (2016-2017)
• Principal Investigator: MIYAZAKI Tensho 鶴見大学, 仏教文化研究所, 准教授 (70773729)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 版本大蔵経 / 写本一切経 / チベット語大蔵経 / 訳注研究 / 日本古写一切経 / 諸本対照テキスト / 批判校訂本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Chinese Buddhist Tripitaka (CBT), which is the traditional corpus of Buddhist literature in Chinese, survives in various editions and manuscripts. Recent rapid progress in digital technology has made it possible and easier for researchers to directly investigate these materials. As such, this project focused on the Chinese versions of a particular Mahayana sutra, namely, the Ajatasatrukaukrtyavinidana (AjKV), and examined how the existent (and available) manuscripts and editions of the CBT are related to each other. In addition, after consulting the existing CBT materials as far as possible, I tried to make reliable texts of the Chinese versions of the AjKV. As part of a basic textual study of the AjKV, I published Japanese annotated translations of several chapters of the Tibetan version of the AjKV and have been preparing Tibetan and Chinese collated versions of the AjKV, which will be published in a couple of years.

Free Research Field

仏教学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現存する漢訳大蔵経諸本の伝承の過程や相互関係については、それらの来歴や構成などの点から、これまでにある程度明らかにされてきた部分もあるが、本研究では〈阿闍世王経〉の漢訳諸本という個別の事例研究をとおして、版本および写本大蔵経の相互関係について、より具体的、より詳細なかたちで解明することができた。
また、諸本資料を対校して学術的に信頼にたる漢訳テキストの構築を試みるとともに、諸本対照テキストの準備を進めつつ、同経チベット語訳から訳注研究も部分的に提示したが、それらは仏教学を支える文献学的研究の基盤となるものであり、その事例研究の一つに数えることができる。