2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on the Mahaoarinirvanasutra in Mahayana : with Special Reference to the Chapter "Fourfold Teachings by Boddhisattvas"
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17520044
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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 |
Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMODA Masahiro The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Professor, 大学院人文社会系研究科, 教授 (50272448)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | Mahaparinirvanasutra / Buddhaghosa / mahayana / auto-commentary / sutra / bodhisattva / Pali / compilation |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has inquired into a distinguishing feature in Chapter 8, "Fourfold teachings by bodhisattvas" of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvanasutra, which astonishingly, initiates its discourse in complete accordance with the same categories that are adopted by Buddhaghosa (5c CE) in his Pali commentaries on sutras in the four Nikayas. These categories, called by him suttanikkhepa and enumerated in the terminologies as attajjhasaya, parajjhasaya, pucchavasika, and atthutpattika, correspond precisely to the fourfold dharmapariyayas propounded by bodhisattvas that appear for the first time at the start of this chapter 8, belonging to the second stage in the history of the compilation of the Mahaparinirvanasutra.
This reveals that the second phase of the Mahaparinirvanasutra is a sort of a commentary on the precedent part, and, as a result, the Mahaparinirvanasutra, which has the name of the genre "sutra," is, in fact, to be accounted as a complex whole consisted of a "sutra" and its "auto-commentary." This testimony not only affords an irrefutable proof of the hypothesis on the existence of the Proto-Mahaparinirvanasutra, as has been illustrated by the name author in enormous detail, but it presents a total new image of Mahayanasutras : Mahayanasutras as being commentarial, abhidhramaistic (doxographical) scripture with no regard to the name of the category "sutra" adopted by the compilers of the text.
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Research Products
(8 results)
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[Book] 帝国日本の学知2006
Author(s)
下田正弘(岸本美緒編集)
Total Pages
388
Publisher
岩波書店
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Book] 現代と仏教2006
Author(s)
下田正弘(末木文美士編集)
Total Pages
228
Publisher
佼成出版社
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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