Making a New Edition of the Scripture of Brahma's Net, the Most Fundametal Text of Mahayana Precepts in East Asian Buddhism

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370045
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Chinese philosophy/Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Funayama Toru 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (70209154)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 梵網経 / 偽経 / 疑経 / 写本 / 校訂 / 大蔵経

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Taking up the Scripture of Brahma's Net (Fanwang jing), the most fundamental text of Mahayana precepts in East Asian Buddhism, the following three works were conducted on the basis of a careful selection of earlier manuscript and woodblock print versions of the text: [1] The examination of the lost passages not found in the extant text; [2] Making a critical edition with collation of over twenty manuscript and woodblock print versions; and [3] making a new type of edition which clearly reveals the earliest form and later transformations of the texts, by choosing the six versions to show each epochal phases of historical changes of the text. Currently a monograph of the new type of edition is under preparation.

Free Research Field

佛教学