Research in the history of Japanese Siddhology

我们研究的目的是为了尽可能清楚地厘清9世纪初由库凯、恩宁等佛教僧侣传入日本的侧学现实是什么。第一年，我们对库凯在京城长安所作的《三七记》进行了分析，特别是第26卷中的《阿斯塔-曼陀罗-苏特伦》。我们已经获得了一些基本数据，以便进行更详细的调查。另一方面，我们注意到他的佛教僧侣活动和书法艺术家的活动之间存在着密切的联系。第二年，我们研究了恩宁的旅行日记(曾由E.O.Reischauer翻译成英文：1955年中国朝圣记录)，以了解他是如何以及从谁那里获得锡达姆元素的，在他的佛经目录中，我们可以找到不少锡达姆手稿的标题，以及少数锡达姆字母Ennin的手稿副本，当他从一位印度牧师那里学习真正的梵文发音时。我们的研究结果已经得到，并将在一系列文章中发表。

The object of our research is to define as clearly as possible what was in reality the siddology introducedinto Japan, in the biginning of the 9th century, by those buddhist priests as Kukai, Ennin and others.In the first year, We have proceeded with an analysis of Kukai's Thirty Notebooks (The Sanju-jo-sassi) he made at Chang-an, the capital oh T'ang's China, especially the maunscript of Asta-mandalaka-sutram containerdinits 26th volume. We have obtained some basic data for a more detailedinvestigation. In the other hand, we have noted that there exist close relations between his activities as a buddhist priest and as a calligraphic artist. Undoutedly the Siddam occupied a key position there.In the second year, we have studied Ennin's Travel Diary (once translated in English by E.O.Reischauer : the Record of a Pilgrimage to China, 1955) to know how and from whom he was given the elements of Siddham, his catalogs of sutras in which we can find not a few titles of siddham manuscripts, and fainally a manuscript copy oh the Siddham alphabet Ennin made note of when he was learning from an Indian priest the authentic sanskrit pronunciation.The result of our research has been and will be published in a series of articles.