Integrating the Research on the Pure Land Buddhism in the Early Kamakura Period with the Study of the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00121
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: MORI Shin'nosuke 早稲田大学, 高等研究所, その他(招聘研究員) (80638718)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 浄土教 / 浄土宗 / 法然房源空 / 選択本願念仏集 / 醍醐本 / 選択要決

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project demonstrated the necessity to reconsider traditional theories on the Pure Land sect of Buddhism in early Kamakura Japan, such as the common ideas that the main work of Honen-bo-Genku was widely valued by his students and he met Shandao (Zendo) in a dream, who was half gold-colored. In addition, it was verified that some historical materials of significance owned at university libraries are still unknown to researchers, and even well-known materials can be newly interpreted. Such outcomes were publicized at several conferences and published as articles, research notes, or an annotation (many of them were peer-reviewed).

Free Research Field

日本中世思想史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

多くの研究者に活用される醍醐本『法然上人伝記』の成立過程について分析し、勢観房源智に由来する箇所は全体の一部分だけらしいことなどを論証できた。また、鎌倉後期の作でないかとも疑われてきた『選択要決』は、嘉禎2年（1236）に源智が撰述したものと見てよいことを論証するとともに、学界未知の同書写本（佛教大学附属図書館浄教寺文庫蔵）を紹介翻刻して学界に便を供することができた。