Study on the *CaturdArakasamAdhisUtra in Comparison with the MahAyAnaMahA-parinirvANasUtra

《大乘涅槃经》(MMPS2)是一部被归类为大载体的佛经，被认为是主要主张佛性理论的经典，它被发现是在公元4世纪到5世纪之间的某个时间里，受至少十部佛经的影响而组成的。本研究的第一步，是对被中国史学家列举为大乘涅盘之一的《三生三世经》进行分析，目的是考察《大乘图》的编纂背景。这两年的主要研究成果是：(1)批判性地编辑了整个藏文版本的《目录》全文，涉及德尔革、北京、南森和斯托格宫四个不同的版本，涵盖了不同的佛经传播脉络，并与相应的两个分别由达摩拉克萨和金那古塔编辑的中文译本进行了比较；(2)澄清了古代印度一般佛经形成过程的特点。前者虽然没有中文对应的文本，但这次已作为本项目的研究报告公布，而后者已在下文列出的两篇论文中公布(见参考文献(5)和(6))。

The Mahayana Mahaparinirvaxiasutra (MMPS2), a sutra classified into the great vehicle strand and known as primarily asserting the Buddha-nature theory, is found to have been composed in some time between 4^<th> and 5^<th> Century CE under the influence of at least as many as ten numbers of sutras. With the aim of investigating the background against which the MMPS was compiled, this research, as its first step, has focused on the analysis of the Caturdarakasainadhisutra, which has been enumerated by Chinese historiographers as one of Parinirvanasutras in Mahayana. Main products of this research for these two years are : (1)Having critically edited a text of the whole Tibetan version of the Caturdarakasalnadlusutra, referring to the four different editions, Derge, Peking, Narthan and Stog Palace, to cover the different sutra transmission linage, in comparison with the corresponding two Chinese translations, redacted by Dharmaraksa and Jnanagupta respectively, and (2)having clarified the feature of the formation process of Buddhist scriptures in general in ancient India. The former, albeit without Chinese corresponding texts, has been publicized this time as the research report of this project, while the latter has been made public in two papers listed below (See References (5)and (6)).