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——犍陀罗经——制作一个真正的批判性版本。作为初步工作，我把梵文和藏文的文本都放入文字处理程序中。我把它们与现有的三种中文译本作了比较。然后我把大部分文字翻译成日语。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精力来完成。与此同时，我想指出一些我的研究项目的结果。(1)这三种中文译本与现在的梵文译本差别很大。尽管他们对文章有清晰的理解，但我们常常怀疑这种理解是否正确。后来的中文译本似乎很好地参考了前面的译本，凡是它们同意的，都加以采纳，凡是它们不同意的，都加以改正。般若的最新译本最符合梵文版本，但有时会插入一段在梵文或藏文版本中都找不到的长段落。(2)与藏文翻译的其他佛经不同，藏文译本出现了大量的缺词，特别是在一个长复合词的情况下，这是Gaddavyu4ha的特点。当我们重新编辑梵文文本时，它仍然给出了很多好的建议。(3)今后，我希望能在整个文本的上下文中把握住samavasarana这类难懂的词语，并在大乘佛教思想的发展中正确理解它们。

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.