Philological Studies of Gandavyuhasutra

这项研究项目的目的是试图制作一部最重要的佛教大乘经典之一的真正批判性版本的《甘达梵经》。作为初步工作，我已经把梵文和藏文两个版本的文本都放入了一个文字处理程序中。我已经将它们与文本的三个可用的中文译本进行了比较。然后我把课文的大部分内容翻译成日语。在这些工作的基础上，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。同时，根据我的研究项目，我想指出几点：(1)三个中文译本与现在的梵文译本有很大的不同。虽然他们对文本有明确的理解，但我们经常怀疑它是正确的还是错误的。后来的中文译本似乎很好地征求了前人的意见，他们同意的就采纳，不同意的就改正。般若最新的译本最符合梵文版本，但它有时会插入梵文或藏文版本中找不到的长段落。(2)与其他佛教文本的藏文翻译不同，藏文版本出现了大量遗漏的单词，特别是在长复合词的情况下，这是Gaddavyu4ha的特点。这对我们重新编辑梵文经文还是有很多很好的建议。(3)今后，我希望能在整个经文的语境中把握像密宗这样的难词，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.