A Study on the Doctrinal System of the Taoist Religion during the Nanbei-chao Sui Tang Period and the Compilation of a Glossary of Taoist Technical Terms

道教不是由宗教创始人创立的。它是多种体系融合在一起的产物。因此，我不得不从研究这些系统的演变开始我的研究。本研究以东晋刘宋时期为研究对象，通过对道教主要流派（天师道、格物道、上清派）教义的分析，论证了这些道教体系都有一个共同的末世论。根据这个理论，世界将很快被一场大灾难所访问，这场大灾难将摧毁整个宇宙，杀死所有的罪人。在大灾之后的太平世界中，只有善良的人（“种子人”）才能生存下来，并能够为金雀侯生帝君服务。很明显，灵宝经和上清经是在这种末世背景下编纂的，这些经文中的精神实践和仪式旨在成为“种子人”之一。本文将这些研究成果整理成《六朝道教史研究》一书，并对道教与佛教的禅坐、道教与佛教的忏悔仪式进行了比较。部分研究成果将在第42届日本印度佛教研究协会大会上发表，并发表在协会会刊第40卷上。我还进行了研究，收集了主要与道教神灵和冥想有关的道教术语。我打算继续这项工作，并使整个材料系统化。

The Taoist religion was not created by a religious founder. It resulted from the merging together of a variety of systems. Consequently, I had to start my study by investigating the evolution of each of these systems. The study focuses upon the Dong-Jin Liu-Song epoch, viz. The main formative period of the religious Taoism, and by analyzing the doctrines of the main sects (Tianshi-dao, Geshi-dao, and Shangqing-pai) I prove that all these systems share an eschatological theory. According to this theory, the world will be soon visited by a cataclysm which will destroy the whole Universe and kill all sinners. It will be only the virtuous people ("the seed people") who will survive and be able to serve Jinquehousheng-dijun in the World of Great Peace which will come after the catastrophe. It became clear that the Lingbao and Shangqing scriptures were compiled against this eschatological background and that the spiritual practices and rituals found in these scriptures were aimed at becoming one of the "seed people". The findings of these studies were put together in a book entitled A Study on the History of the Taoist Religion during the Six Dynasties.Furthermore, I made a comparison between the Taoist meditation and the Buddhist meditation as well as between the Taoist repentance ritual and the Buddhist repentance ceremony. A part of the findings will be presented at the 42nd Congress of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies and published in vol.40 of the Journal of the Association.I have also conducted research and collected Taoist terms mainly connected with the Taoist divinities and meditation. I intend to continue this work and systematize the whole material.