2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic study of the Korean Sanskrit Characters Culture
| Project/Area Number |
21520778
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Archaeology
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
KO Jungyong 立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (40330005)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 梵字 / 梵鐘 / 考古学 / 韓国史 / 仏教学 / 美術史 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study is a result of study of the Korean artifacts on which Sanskrit characters are inscribed or casted. In Korea, Sanskrit characters had been developed in a unique way unlike those of China or Japan. Thus the study of Korean Sanskrit characters had been in disruption for a long time, and we find it difficult even to read many of them by the knowledge about Japanese Sanskrit characters. So I am intended to clarify the change of the Korean Sanskrit characters culture in this study through collecting the Korean artifacts on which Sanskrit characters are inscribed or casted. As a result of study, I was able to clarify a outline of the Korean Sanskrit characters culture by examining what kind of artifacts-mainly Buddhist temple bells-Sanskrit characters words "mantra" or "biijaakSara" had been inscribed or casted, and examining how the character style had been changed in every era in Korea.
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