Eight heresies in Jainism

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370065
• 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: Chikushi Jogakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Uno Tomoyuki 筑紫女学園大学, 文学部, 教授 (40331011)
• Research Collaborator: FUJINAGA SHIN 都城工業高等専門学校, 教授 ; KAWASAKI YUTAKA 東京大学, 助教 ; NAKAGAWA MASANORI 筑紫女学園大学, 人間科学部, 教授 ; KOBAYASHI HISAYASU 筑紫女学園大学, 文学部, 准教授 ; KAWAJIRI YOHEI 筑紫女学園大学, 人間文化研究所, リサーチアソシエイト
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ジャイナ教 / 異端 / ニフナヴァ・ヴァーダ章 / ガナダラ・ヴァーダ章 / ジナバドラ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We read the Nihnavavada chapter of the Visesavasyakabhasya, a Svetambara canonical exegesis attributed to Jinabhadra Gani Ksamasramana (ca. 505-609), conducting a study on the split of the Jaina religious order caused by eight heresies and the debates between heretical and orthodox schools. In the Nihnavava;da, Jinabhadra mentions nothing about the mendicant law applied to the case of excommunication from their order and the procedure of making a judgment as to who is a heresy. He devoted his effort not to the description of how heresies were expelled from their order but to the defense of orthodox views through philosophical argumentation. The Nihnavavada is a record of philosophical disputes in Jinabhadra's era, which was intended to be a historical record of the Jaina mendicant order. On the contents of the disputes, see below.

Free Research Field

インド哲学