Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2019/03
Author : HIRABAYASHI Jiro; NAWA Ryuken; TAMAI Tatsushi
This research project focused on the study of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts from Greater Gandhara and Central Asia preserved mainly at the British Library, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Archives of India. Firstly, regarding the British Library's manuscripts, we advanced research on the Hoernle and Stein Collection. Secondly, concerning manuscripts kept at the Russian Academy of Sciences, we deciphered and identified Buddhist Sanskrit fragments and transliterated Dharani manuscripts. Thirdly, we published colour facsimile editions of the manuscripts of the Ajitasenavyakarana and the Prajnaparamita which are preserved at the National Archives of India. The next volumes of The British Library Sanskrit Fragments and The St. Petersburg Sanskrit Fragments will be published in the near future.