Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in Medieval Hinduism

这一研究项目旨在从南亚宗教史上更广泛、更多的方面重新思考中世纪印度的巴克提运动。在语言上，中世纪印度教的巴克提文学涵盖了印度各地的各种语言和方言，即来自北方的印度雅利安人和南方的德拉维人。因此，研究小组从不同的语言背景，即梵语、印地语、马拉提语、泰米尔语和孟加拉语，为这一特定的研究主题组织了研究小组。在这方面，这项研究有自己的独特之处，因为这种全面的视角揭示了中世纪印度教，特别是巴克提的整体方面，到目前为止还没有日本学者做过。在研究期间，我们在所有五个研讨会的名义下举行了“巴克提工作坊”的领导下，岩岛教授，谁领导这个项目的头两年，但突然死亡在2007学年开始。东北大学的山下教授在最后一年成功完成了他的项目。在200学年，除了7月在东京举行最后的工作坊外，我们主要专注于编辑项目的最终报告，其中包括成员的英文专著。这将是个别研究人员在这一共同主题下密集研究的成果，充满了新的视角和发现。这本英文文集将由日本南亚研究协会(JASAS)在印度出版，作为其专著系列之一，经过进一步完善和修改。

This research project aims at the rethinking of the bhakti movement of medieval India from wider and multifarious aspects in the religious history of South Asia. Linguistically, the bhakti literature of medieval Hinduism covered various languages and vernaculars all over India, namely from Indo-Aryans of the North and Dravidians of the South. Therefore, the research team was organized for this particular research topic from different linguistic backgrounds.; namely Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Bengali. In this respect, this research has its own uniqueness because this kind of comprehensive perspective to shed light to the overall aspects of medieval Hinduism, that of bhakti in particular has so far never been done by the Japanese scholarship.We held in all five workshops during the research period under the name of "Bhakti Workshop" under the leadership of Prof. Iwao Shima, who led this project for the first two years but demised suddenly at the beginning of the academic year of 2007. Prof Yamashita of Tohoku University succeeded his project in the final year.In the academic year 200, apart from holding the final workshop at Tokyo in July, we mainly concentrated upon editing the final report of the project which consists of English monographs of the members. This will be the fruit of the intensive research work of individual researchers under this common topic, being filled with new perspectives and findings.This collection of English articles are to be published from India by JASAS (The Japanese Association of South Asian Studies) as one of the volumes of their Monograph Series, after further refinement and modifications.