Philological Studies of Gandavyuhasutra

这个研究项目的目的是试图为最重要的佛教大乘经典之一《甘达武哈经》制作一个真正的批判版本。作为初步工作，我已经把梵文和藏文版本的文本到一个文字处理程序。我将它们与文本的三个现有中文译本进行了比较。然后我把大部分内容翻译成日语。在这些作品的基础上，我打算重新编辑全文，这还需要更多的时间和努力才能完成。在此期间，我想指出几件事，作为我的研究项目的结果。(1)这三个中文译本与现在的梵文译本有很大的不同。虽然他们提出了一个明确的理解的文本，我们经常怀疑它是否正确或不。后来的中译本似乎很好地参考了前几个译本，采纳了他们所同意的，纠正了他们所不同意的。最新的翻译由般若对应最好的梵文版本，但它有时插入一个很长的通道，这是没有发现无论是在梵文或藏文版本。(2)与其他佛经的藏文译本不同，藏文版本中有很多缺失的单词，特别是在一个很长的复合词的情况下，这是Gaddavyu4ha的特点。尽管如此，当我们重新编辑梵语文本时，它仍然提供了很多很好的建议。(3)今后，我想在整个文本的语境中把握像samavasarana这样的难词，并在大乘佛教思想的发展中正确地理解它们。

The aim of this research project is to try to produce a truly critical edition of one of the most important Buddhist Mahayana scripture, Gandavyuha-sutra. As a preliminary work, I have put both Sanskrit and Tibetn version of the text into a word processing program. I have compared them with the three available Chinese translations of the text. Then I translated most portions of the text into Japanese. On the basis of these works, I intend to re-edit the whole text, which still needs more time and efforts to complete. In the meantime, I would like to point out a few things as a result of my research projects.(1) The three Chinese translations differ greatly from the present sanskrit version. Although they present a clear understanding of the text, we are often in doubt as to whether it is correct or not. The succeeding Chinese translations seem to have consulted the preceding ones very well, adopting whatever they agreed and correcting whatever they did not. The latest translation by Prajna corresponds best with the Sanskrit version, yet it sometimes interpolates a long passage which is not found either in Sanskrit or Tibetan Version.(2) Unlike Tibetan translations of the other Buddhist texts, the Tibetan version presents a lot of missing words especially in the case of a long compound word, characteristic to Gaddavyu4ha. Still it gives a lot of good suggestions when we re-edit the Sanskrit text.(3) In the future, I would like to grasp such difficult words as samavasarana in the whole context of the text and to understand them correctly in the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought.