2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study of Buddhist Manuscripts from Afghanistan
Project/Area Number |
19320012
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
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Research Institution | Bukkyo University |
Principal Investigator |
MATSUDA Kazunobu Bukkyo University, 仏教学部, 教授 (90268128)
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Research Collaborator |
BRAARVIG Jens オスロ大学, 教授
HARTMANN Jens-Uwe ミュンヘン大学, 教授
HARRISON Paul スタンフォード大学, 教授
SANDER Lore ベルリン・インド博物館, 学芸員
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Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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Keywords | 仏教学 / アフガニスタン / 写本 |
Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research project is to study on a huge cache of Buddhist manuscript fragments written in various kinds of Indic script discovered from the ruins of a stone monastery in the Zargaran district located in the eastern part of the Bamiyan valley during the early 1990s. These various manuscripts are preserved by different collectors in Europe and America, as well as Japan, with the most representative one being the Schoyen Collection of Norway. An international joint research team has begun to decipher these manuscripts, and the results of our research findings have been published in three volumes and the forth one will be released in Oslo in the near future as a result of the four years research project.
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