The Philosophy and Movement of Cittar-s(a Group of Tamil Devotional Poets)with Special Reference to St. Ramalingar

本研究项目始于2008学年，共发表了5篇论文。出版作品包括两本单独和共同作者的著作，一篇文章和两份报告，均为单独作者。在上述出版物中，有三本以英文出版。特别值得一提的是，这本合著的书是由Manohar出版的，这本书是日本作家关于印度虔诚主义的文章的合集，Manohar是一家著名的印度出版商，以其印度语标题而闻名，并在学术界广泛阅读。2009年出版的《瑜伽的哲学》作为讲谈社著名的Sensho Metier系列丛书之一，获得了日本广大读者的广泛认可。在这份特别出版物中，简明扼要地介绍了以圣拉玛林加为代表的泰米尔Cittar传统研究项目成果的实质及其意义。值得注意的是，本研究项目的最新成果已以商业出版物的形式向公众广泛而迅速地公开。本课题的一篇论文在相关学术会议上发表，并获得好评。

The present research project, which started in the academic year of 2008, produced totally five publications.The publications include two books of single and co-authorship, one article and two reports, both of single authorship. Among the above-mentioned publications, three are published in English. In particular, the book of co-authorship, which is the collection of articles of Japanese authors on Indian devotionalism, was published by Manohar, a celebrated Indian publisher widely known with their Indological titles, and widely read among the academic circles.The publication of single authorship of Yoga no Shisou (The Philosophy of Yoga), published in 2009 as one of the volumes of well-known Sensho Metier Series of the Publisher Kodansha, gained wide acceptance among the reading public of Japan. In that particular publication, the essence of the fruit of this research project on the Tamil Cittar tradition as epitomized by Saint Ramalingar and its significance is presented in a condensed manner. It should be quite noteworthy that the latest outcome of the present research project has become thus widely and promptly open to the public in the format of commercial publication.One paper, a result of this research topic, was read at related academic conferences and received favourable response.