The Ratnameghasutra, an important discourse of the Mahayana: The retrieval of its Sanskrit version (continuation)

大乘佛教的重要论述《宝经》：梵文版本的检索（续）

• 批准号: 281899732
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
• 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/281899732?language=en
• 关键词: Ratnameghasutra; important; discourse; Mahayana; retrieval

The Ratnameghasutra, the “Discourse (entitled) Cloud of Jewels,” is not counted among the narrative sutras of the Great Vehicle. It rather contains a comprehensive description of the notions and practices of a bodhisatva. They are dealt with in a total of 101 questions, all of which the Buddha answers systematically. Thus the sutra offers a large fund of doctrinal topics, and this explains why time and again it was used as a canonical point of reference in the commentarial literature of the Mahayana. The number of quotations from the Ratnameghasutra in commentarial literature is impressive, and it highlights the importance of the text already in Indian Buddhism. It was translated into Chinese four times as well as into Tibetan at a very early stage. In both cultural environments it gained additional socio-historical importance. In modern scholarship it did not receive due attention; however, in view of its highly terminological content this is unsurprising, since the Sanskrit original was lost. In the late eighties of the last century it became known that a Sanskrit manuscript of the Ratnameghasutra was preserved in Tibet. Although access to those manuscripts is extremely restricted, to our surprise the relevant authorities in Beijing placed the manuscript at our disposal and gave permission to publish it. After two years of intensive work about half of the text has been edited, but it has become clear that it will not be possible to finish the entirety within the three years allotted to the project. Therefore this application seeks an extension in order to finish the critical edition of the sutra based on the manuscript and in comparison with the Chinese and Tibetan translations. Only the edition will ultimately procure the Ratnameghasutra an adequate place in modern scholarship that reflects its former significance to the intellectual history of India, China and Tibet.

Ratnameghasutra是“珠宝云的话语（有权）云”，这并不算在伟大的车辆的叙事中。相反，它包含对菩萨的笔记和实践的全面描述。他们总共处理了101个问题，佛陀都有系统地回答。 《佛经》提供了一个大量的教义主题，这解释了为什么它一次又一次用作大教堂评论文献中的规范参考点。 Ratnameghasutra在评论文献中的引文数量令人印象深刻，它突出了文本在印度佛教中的重要性。它在很早的阶段被翻译成四次中文，并被翻译成藏人。在这两个文化环境中，它都具有额外的社会历史重要性。在现代科学中，它没有得到适当的关注。但是，鉴于其高度术语内容，这并不奇怪，因为梵语原件丢失了。在上个世纪八十年代后期，人们知道，拉特纳格斯特拉（Ratnameghasutra）的梵语手稿保存在西藏。尽管对这些手稿的访问受到极大限制，但令我们惊讶的是，北京的相关当局将手稿置于我们的处置状态，并允许发布该手稿。经过两年的密集工作，已经进行了大约一半的文本编辑，但是很明显，在分配给该项目的三年内，不可能完成整个整体。因此，本应用程序寻求扩展名，以根据手稿并与中文和藏语翻译相比，完成佛经的关键版本。只有该版本最终才能使Ratnameghasutra成为现代科学中的足够地位，它反映了其对印度，中国和西藏知识史的先前意义。