The Interdisciplinary Research into the Classical Texts preserved in the Temples of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism -Centering on the Texts bequeathed to the Kongoji Temple

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The aim of our project is a general investigation into Kongo-ji Shogyo(金剛寺聖教): the collection of the sacred texts in the possession of the Shingon-shu (esoteric Buddhism) temple Kongo-ji in Kawachinagano City, Osaka Prefecture.The project's aims were two fold. Our first priority was to make a complete, simplified catalog of the Shogyo. Our second priority was detailed research into and scrutiny of selected cardinally important materials of the Shogyo : for example, Zenkyotaii(全経大意), Hyakuganshujikan(百願修持観), Myokukanyo(明句肝要), Kiyomizudera-engi(清水寺縁起) and Mumyobukkyotekikusho(無名仏教摘句抄).We were able to complete a preliminary catalog of the Kongo-ji Shogyo texts stored in Boxes 21 to 55 (inclusive), compromising texts and documents which had previously not been systematically catalogued or researched. In so doing our research team has succeeded in cataloging nearly all of the Kongo-ji Shogyo.As part of our project, we conducted comprehensive research into the musical scores and the Buddhist printed books (including fragmented materials) in the Shogyo, and we conducted academic evaluations of the Shogyo collection's important materials.In conclusion, as a result of this project, we published three volumes of academic report bulletins in our research term of four years. We incorporated our Shogyo catalog in these three volumes, and in addition included research articles on Kongo-ji Shogyo, accompanied by facsimiles of the texts and documents, and honkoku (transcriptions) of various significant materials.