A Contribution to Buddhist Philosophy: New Sanskrit Fragments of the Yogacarabhumi

对佛教哲学的贡献：瑜伽行派新梵文残篇

• 批准号: 314090777
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/314090777?language=en
• 关键词: Contribution; Buddhist; Philosophy; New; Sanskrit

The Yogacarabhumi, "the Treatise on the Levels of Those Who Engage in Spiritual Training (yoga)" forms the fundamental work of one of the two main schools of Indian Mahayana-Buddhism. It presents the philosophical foundations of this school; at the same time it is the largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. In both aspects it exercised a formative influence on Indian Buddhism and shaped East-Asian and, although to a lesser degree, Tibetan Buddhism. Up till today it serves as one of the main Indian treatises of dogmatic relevance for Buddhist practitioners in East Asia. Tradition ascribes it to a single author, but present-day scholarship considers it a compilation that combines ideas and doctrinal developments of different times. This makes it difficult to establish a precise date, but it is most likely that the work was compiled around the middle of the first millennium.About half of the text was considered lost in its Indian original, and scholars had to turn to the Chinese and Tibetan translations when they wished to study developments in the doctrine or the meditative practices of the school. Quite unexpectedly, during the last years several folios from Sanskrit manuscripts of sections of the text that were considered lost came to the knowledge of scholars. Among them there is even a folio from an unknown commentary, and this was probably the biggest surprise. The folios are distributed among collections in Kathmandu, Lhasa and St. Petersburg. The project aims at the edition and translation of these folios, since the original Sanskrit wording is simply indispensable when attempting to study an extremely terminological work like the Yogacarabhumi; tracing and understanding the developments in doctrine and practice delineated in such a work often become haphazard without recourse to the Sanskrit text.

Yogacarabhumi，“关于从事精神训练的人的论文（瑜伽）”，构成了印度Mahayana-Buddhism的两所主要学校之一的基本工作。它提出了这所学校的哲学基础。同时，这是印度最大的佛教冥想文本。在这两个方面，它都对印度佛教和塑造的东西亚洲产生了形成的影响，尽管在较小程度上是藏传佛教。直到今天，它一直是与东亚佛教从业者的教条式相关性的主要论文之一。传统将其归因于一位作者，但当今的奖学金认为它是结合了不同时代的思想和教义发展的汇编。这使得很难确定确切的日期，但是很可能是在第一个千年的中间汇编的作品。大约一半的文本被认为是在其印度原始原件中丢失的，而学者必须转向中国人和藏族的翻译想研究学说或学校的冥想实践的发展时。非常出乎意料的是，在过去的几年中，梵文部分的梵语手稿中的一些作品集被认为丢失了学者。其中甚至有一个未知评论的作品集，这可能是最大的惊喜。作品集分布在加德满都，拉萨和圣彼得堡的收藏中。该项目的目的是这些作品集的版本和翻译，因为在尝试研究像Yogacarabhumi这样的极端术语工作时，原始的梵语措辞是必不可少的。追踪和理解学说的发展和实践中所描述的这项工作的发展通常会偶然地变成偶然的，而无需求助于梵语文本。