Textual Criticism and Japanese Translation of the Lalitavistara, a Mahayana Buddha's Legend

为了实现本项目的目的，我。e.考证和日文翻译的Lalitavistara，我们必须，首先和最后，从事三个基本工作。三部作品如下。（1）调查属于东京大学图书馆和世界各地其他大学或档案馆的尼泊尔《拉利塔维斯塔拉宣言》。（2）调查藏文翻译的Lalitavistara（3）了解印度的思想潮流，其中佛教（特别是大乘佛教）受到印度教的深刻影响在进行第一和第二部作品时，我参考了十三个mss。总共包括四个会员国。东京大学拥有，和五个版本的藏文翻译（北京，Sde-dge，拉萨，Snar-than，Cone）。通过参考文献，我做了一个梵文和藏文词汇的对照表，并尽我所能做出一个准确的文本和一个正确的taranslation。关于第三部著作，我对《博伽梵歌》进行了一些研究，并用比较的方法对希腊和印度的灵魂观进行了研究，在这两年里，我总共写了七篇文章，其中六篇已经出版，一篇正在出版。其中四篇是关于考据学的，三篇是关于大乘佛教思想的理解。但是，多亏了这笔补助金，我才得以完成第15章的文本批评和日文翻译。我计划从现在开始继续分部分陆续出版这一章，但目前我确信我已经达到了预期的主要目的。

In order to acoomplish the purpose of this project, i. e. Textual Criticism and Japanese Translation of the Lalitavistara, we must, first and last, engaged in three basic works. The three works are as follows.(1)Investigating the Nepal Manuscripts of the Lalitavistara belonging to Tokyo University Library and other Universities or Archives in all the world.(2)Investigating the Tibetan Translation of the Lalitavistara(3)Understanding the current of Indian thought, in which Buddhism (and particularly Mahayana Buddhism) is profoundly influenced by HinduismCarrying out the first and the second works, I refered to thirteen mss. in total which include four mss. owned by Tokyo University, and five editions of Tibetan translation (Peking, Sde-dge, Lha-sa, Snar-than, Cone). Through the references I made a comparative list of Sanskrit and Tibetan words, and I did my best to make an accurate text and a correct taranslation as much as possible. Relating to the third work, I did some researches on the Bhagavad-gita, and I made a study on the view of soul in Greek and in India by the comparative method.In these tow years, after all, I wrote seven articles, six of which are already published and one is now in press. The four articles of them are concerned with Textual Criticism, and the three with understanding of Mahayana-Buddhist thought.Lalitavistara is too large to read all the chapters in a short period. But, thanks to this grant-in-aid, I was able to finish Textual Criticsm and Japanese Translation of Chapter 15. I plan to continue publishing the chapter in parts successively from now on, but for the present I am sure that I have achieved the main purpose kept in anticipation.