Project description:

The Āgama Research Group at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts has digitised, edited and supplemented an unpublished index to footnotes to the 6-volumes Japanese translation of the Dīrgha-āgama (Taishō 1, 長阿含經).

The bibliographic reference to the translation is as follows:

Karashima Seishi (辛嶋静志), Okayama Hajime (丘山新), Kamitsuka Yoshiko (神塚淑子), Kanno Hiroshi (菅野博史), Sueki Fumihiko (末木文美士), Hikita Hiromichi (引田弘道), and Matsumura Takumi (松村巧) (transl.), Gendaigo yaku agon kyōten: Jōagongyō. 現代語訳「阿含経典」, Tokyo: Hirakawa Shuppansha (平河出版社), 1996-2005, 6 vols.

This large translation project was the joint effort of sinologically trained linguists and philologists trained in Indology and Buddhist studies. Their combined expertise resulted in rich research footnotes that deal with problematic terminology and readings from a perspective that takes into account both linguistic and content aspects of the Āgama collection. This makes the index to the words and passages discussed in the footnotes particularly useful for scholars of the early Buddhist Āgamas and for scholars working on the Chinese translations of Buddhist texts in general.

The 6-volumes translation is based on an earlier serialised translation that was originally published in monthly instalments in Gekkan Āgama (月刊アーガマ), the magazine of the Āgama revivalist (and controversial) movement founded in 1978 by Kiriyama Seiyū (桐山靖雄) called Agonshū (阿含宗).

The incomplete unpublished index was first prepared on the basis of this serialised translation. The person responsible for assembling the original index – compiled by a group of Japanese students – is Eiichi Enomoto (榎本榮一), formerly editor at Hirakawa Shuppansha (平河出版社). The publisher Hirakawa Shuppansha (平河出版社) has granted its permission to use, modify and make freely available the index.

The draft version has been first digitised, then matched with the 6-volumes edition, supplemented and corrected wherever necessary. The present index covers all words and phrases significantly discussed in the footnotes of the 6-volumes edition.

Project members:

• coordinator: Sāmaṇerī Dhammadinnā (竺法樂) [Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (法鼓文理學院)]
• advisor: Karashima Seishi (辛嶋静志) [The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所)]
• technical advisor: Hung Jen-jou (洪振洲) [Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (法鼓文理學院)]
• executive assistants: Bhikṣu Changrui (釋長叡), Ray Chou (周邦信) [Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (法鼓文理學院)]
• support: April Ke (柯春玉), Bhikṣu Fachi (釋法持), Grace (葛賢敏), Xu Jiayu (許佳瑜) [Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (法鼓文理學院)]
• editor of the original draft index: Enomoto Eiichi (榎本榮一) [formerly at Hirakawa Shuppansha (平河出版社)]

User guide:

• In the present index, the Japanese characters (漢字) employed in the footnotes have been replaced with their Chinese equivalents as found in the Taishō edition of the Chinese Tripiṭaka (CBETA version, 2011).
• The present index lists ‘headwords’ according to the Hanyu pinyin word order.
• The primary reference given in the present index is to the volume, page number, and footnote number of the 6-volumes translation.
• The present index further includes the original information – where available – to the issue number of Gekkan Āgama (月刊アーガマ) in which the annotated translation of the Dīrgha-āgama (Taishō 1, 長阿含經) discourses where originally published.
• In a few cases the translation of a single discourse was assigned to more than one translator, as explained in the introduction to the translation. This explains the indication e.g. “遊行經①,遊行經②”, which refers to the different translators.

Formats:

The index is available in the following formats:

XML (2014-07-09 15:32:51), XML 使用手冊 (XML markup guideline)

HTML

• 依漢語拼音排序 (entries listed according to the Hanyu Pinyin alphabetical order) (2017-11-13 11:56:31)
• 依《現代語訳長阿含經》出處排序 (entries listed according to their occurence in the Japanese translation of the Dīrgha-āgama) (2017-11-13 11:56:30)

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