2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of the Abhidharmic doctrines and the exegetical interpretions of Vasubandhu in Gupta period
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17520052
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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 | Koyasan University |
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Principal Investigator |
MUROJI Yoshihito Koyasan University, Faculty of Literature, Professor (00190942)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Indian Philosophy / Buddhism |
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| Research Abstract |
This research representative, supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2007, has been engaged in philological studies on the orthodox Abhidharmic doctrines and the exegetical interpretations of Vasubandhu under the influence of Sanskrit culture in the Gupta period. The works of Vasubandhu (ca.400), the most important monastic scholar of Buddhist thought of that period, are primarily analyzed in this research project. Concerning the opinions of the Sautrantikas, which are affirmatively recorded in his main doctrinal work, the Abhidharmakosabhasa, I made a closer re-inspection of the research on the Sautrantikas done by Prof. Junsho Kato (Etude sur les Sautrantika, Tokyo 1989), and then explored the three kinds of Vibhasa (Taisho Nos.1545-1547) extant only in Chinese translations, since these commentaries on the Jnanaprasthana as mula-text of the Abhidharmic doctrines have not been sufficiently studied to date. I considered also the meaning of an original word form sutranta (literally, the terminal of sutra) from which the term sautranika is derived. The outcome of this research project was partially published in the Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Vol.54, No.2, 2006, under the title of “Utsutra in the Abhidharmakosabhasya. Furthermore, I extended these considerations to the Mahayana sturas, and conducted a philological analysis of the annotations supplied by Vasubandhu to the Dasabhumika sutra. In particular, I examined and elucidated clearly the metaphorical explanations peculiar to this sutra concerned with comparing the fundamentally virtuous and good prime factor of the moral heart possessed by the bodhisattva, who is an ideal of Mahayanist Buddhism, to natural gold ore. A part of my findings was published in A Study of the Lotus Sutra and Mahayana Buddhist Scripture, edited by Prof. Mochizuki Kaishuku.
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Research Products
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