Philological Study of Sacred Shin Buddhist Texts: Vasubandhu’s Wuliangshoujing-lun as a Model Case
Basic Research Division
Specific Research Grants (Joint)
Philological Study of Sacred Shin Buddhist Texts: Vasubandhu’s Wuliangshoujing-lun as a Model Case.
FY 2024 to FY 2025
Principal Investigator
Junshin Uchida (Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Ryukoku University)
Co-Investigators
Daigo Sasaki (Professor, Ryukoku University Junior College)
Yasunori Mibu (Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University)
Ryuhei Ueno (Part-time lecturer, Ryukoku University)
Toshiro Tsujimoto (Visiting Researcher, Asia Research Institute, Osaka University of Economics and Law)
Yuki Takatsukasa (Faculty of Business Administration, Kyoto University)
Yosuke Tsugawa (Part-time Lecturer/Research Assistant, Faculty of Letters / Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryukoku University)
Yusei Kitayama (Part-time lecturer, Ryukoku University)
Research Type
Joint Research
Overview
This research aims to achieve a more rigorous understanding of essential documents in the doctrinal history of Jōdo Shinshū, with particular attention to The Pure Land Writings of the Seven Patriarchs. To do so, we will conduct a detailed critique of the text, introducing the historical context in which the documents were created. To this end, we plan to focus on Vasubandhu’s Wuliangshoujing-lun, and make a critically edited text and a translation with commentary based on it. This will provide the basic materials for elucidating the Pure Land Buddhist thought found in Vasubandhu’s Wuliangshoujing-lun, Tanluan’s Ōjōronchū (Commentary on the Treatise on Rebirth in the Pure Land), which was based on it, and Shinran’s works, including Kyōgyōshinshō (The True Teaching, Practice, Faith, and Realization).