Production by Computer of Index to Visuddhi-magga and Reconstruction of the Text

巴利文本协会（PTS，牛津）迄今为止已经系统地出版了许多重要的巴利文本，包括《加塔卡》和《毗祖地玛迦》。然而，几乎所有的文本还没有完整的词索引。即使将一些索引编译到文本中，它也像往常一样是不正确的，并且包含许多错误。因此，许多学者都希望有完整的佛学词汇索引。我们利用个人电脑编制了巴利文经典的词索引，并于1997年从PTS出版了《地经》的词索引。作为前一个项目的延续，我们一直在编制Jataka的单词索引。这个索引很大，有必要把它分成三卷。这个索引变得如此昂贵，以至于每个学者可能都不会购买。因此，PTS决定该索引应在2002年1月以CD-ROM的形式出版。我们现在正在制作另一个重要文本Visuddhi-magga的单词索引，并于2002年3月提交给PTS。我们可以用索引制作的方式准备一个非常精确的PTS格式的电子文本。这篇文章被归还给PTS，用于重建PTS版本的Visuddhi-Magga。因此，我们可以在这个项目中实现几乎所有的目的。此外，我们还完成了以下研究工作：(1)2000年出版了《达摩达》、《小笠加》、《小笠加》、《苏达尼帕塔》四部重要佛经的文字索引；(2)分别于2001年和2002年出版了《般若经》和《比丘尼律》的正字和反字索引。这两本典籍在研究佛教混合梵文中非常重要；(3)与本课题有关的论文数篇。

The Pali Text Society (PTS, Oxford) has systematically published many important Pali canonical texts so far, including Jataka and Visuddhi-magga. However, any complete word index have not yet been produced to almost all texts. Even if some index was compiled to the text, it was, as usual, incorrect and contained many errors. Thus many scholars have desired the complete word index for the study of the Buddhism. By using a personal computer we have been compiling the word index to the Pali canonical texts, and have published the word index to the Digha-nikaya in 1997 from PTS. We have been compiling the word index to the Jataka as a continuation from the previous project. This index is very large : it is necessary to divide this into three volumes. This index becomes so expensive that every scholar might not purchase. Thus PTS decides that this index should be published in a form of CD-ROM on 2002, January. We are now making produce the word index to another important text, Visuddhi-magga, and to submit it to PTS on March, 2002. We could prepare a very precise electronic text to the Visuddhi-magga in PTS format in the way of the index production. This text was given back to the PTS for the reconstruction of the Visuddhi-Magga in PTS version. Thus we could achieved almost all purposes in this project. Furthermore, we have accomplished the following studies : (1) publication of the word index for four important Buddhist canons, Dhammapada, Theragatha, Therigatha and Suttanipata in 2000 ; (2) publication of the two indexes in 2001 and 2002, the word and reverse word index to the Pratimoksa-sutram and also to the Bhiksuni-vinaya. These two texts are very important in the study of the Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit ; (3) several papers in the relating subject to this project.