Tibeto-Himalayan Law and Indo-Tibetan Philosophy

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K21610
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 1:Philosophy, art, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kumagai Seiji 京都大学, 人と社会の未来研究院, 准教授 (80614114)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ALVAREZ・ORTEGA MIGUEL 京都大学, 法学研究科, 特定准教授 (90876187)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-06-28 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: ヒマラヤ法学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main purpose of this research project was to conduct a discussion-based research on the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and legal and political philosophy in the Tibetan and Himalayan regions, with the main objective of conducting a preliminary survey as a challenge to establish a groundbreaking research methodology, in which Buddhologists and legal scholars collaborate in an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and the legal and political philosophy.
In September 2019, we hosted an international workshop on Himalayan Law, Politics and Buddhist Ethics at Kyoto University, where we examined the methodological problems of existing research and discussed ideal research methods. In July 2022, we discussed Himalayan jurisprudence with foreign jurists and Tibetologists at the 16th Seminar of International Association for Tibetan Studies.

Free Research Field

仏教学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

歴史学者たちによるチベットやブータンの法制史研究は存在していたが、法律や政治に関する哲学的考察は殆ど行われてこなかった。既に西洋の法学者の一部が、ヒマラヤ地域を対象とした法学研究を試みていたが、古典言語の読解や仏教哲学の理解に大きな欠陥を抱えていた。そこで本研究課題では、チベット・ヒマラヤ地域の法・政治理念と仏教哲学との関係性について、仏教学者と法学者が共同で学際的分析を行う、という画期的な研究手法の確立に向けた国際協力体制を構築でき、挑戦的かつ萌芽的な取り組みとなった。