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，共出版了5本出版物，其中包括两本独著和合著的书籍，一篇文章和两篇报告，均为单一作者。在上述出版物中，有三份是用英文出版的。特别是，这本合著书汇集了日本作家关于印度虔诚主义的文章，由印度著名出版商Manohar出版，他们的印度学著作广为人知，在学术界被广泛阅读。2009年出版的《单一作者的瑜伽哲学》(Single Authship of Yoga no Shisou，简称Yoga no Shisou)，作为Kodanshah出版社著名的Sensho Metier系列丛书之一，在日本读者中获得了广泛的接受。在该出版物中，以圣拉马林加为代表的泰米尔公民传统研究项目成果的精髓及其重要意义被简明扼要地介绍。值得注意的是，本研究项目的最新成果以商业出版物的形式迅速广泛地向公众开放。这一研究课题的一篇论文在有关学术会议上被阅读并获得好评。

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.