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.

《瑜伽经》（Yogacarabhumi）是印度大乘佛教两大主要流派之一的基本著作。它介绍了这一学派的哲学基础;同时，它也是印度最大的佛教冥想文本。在这两个方面，它对印度佛教产生了形成性的影响，并塑造了东亚佛教和藏传佛教，尽管程度较低。直到今天，它作为一个主要的印度论文的教条相关的佛教从业者在东亚。传统认为它是一个单一的作者，但当今的学术认为它是一个汇编，结合了不同时代的思想和理论发展。这使得很难确定一个精确的日期，但最有可能的是，这部作品大约是在第一个千年中期编纂的。大约一半的文本被认为在印度原文中丢失了，学者们不得不转向中文和藏文翻译，当他们希望研究教义的发展或学校的冥想练习时。出乎意料的是，在过去的几年里，学者们从梵文手稿中发现了几段被认为丢失的经文。其中甚至有一个不知名的评论，这可能是最大的惊喜。这些藏品分布在加德满都、拉萨和彼得堡。该项目旨在编辑和翻译这些手稿，因为当试图研究像《瑜伽经》这样极端术语性的作品时，原始的梵文措辞是不可或缺的;如果不求助于梵文文本，追踪和理解这样一部作品中描述的教义和实践的发展往往是偶然的。