| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In 1898, William Peppe discovered remains of the Buddha in British India. The following year, in 1899, the British government and its chartered administration in India gifted them to the royal family of Thailand. The Buddhist community in Japan received a part of them in 1900. The Kakuozan Nissen-ji Temple was constructed to enshrine them in 1904 in Tsukimizaka, Tashiro village, Aichi District (present-day Hoo-cho, Chikusa Ward, Nagoya City)(The name of the temple was altered to Nittai-ji in 1942). Later, in 1918, the Enshrinement Tower was constructed at Nissen-ji and this became the prescribed final shrine for the remains of the Buddha. Although Nissen-ji / Nittai-ji has come to be positioned as one of the main centers of Japanese-Thai cultural exchange, researchers, so far, have not adequately focused on its history. In this research, we review the history of Nissen-ji in the Meiji and Taisho period, analyzing regional and religious newspapers and sects’ institutional journals.
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