1. Hokazono Kōichi 外園幸一, Raritavisutara no kenkyū (chūkan) ラリタヴィスタラの研究 (中巻). Tokyo: Daitō Shuppansha 大東出版社, 2019. isbn 978450000771-4. iv, 670 pp.; Raritavisutara no kenkyū (gekan) ラリタヴィスタラの研究 (下巻). Tokyo: Daitō Shuppansha 大東出版社, 2019. isbn 9784500007721. vi, 614 pp.
2. Guillaume Ducoeur, La Vie du Buddha. Lalitavistara sūtra ou Sūtra du développement des jeux [du Bodhisattva], iie–viie siècle après J.-C. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2018. isbn 9791034400102. 156 pp.
3. Author Affiliation: Leiden University
關鍵詞
Lalitavistara; Sanskrit Buddhist literature; sūtra; text criticism
摘要
The Lalitavistara is one of the most influential hagiographies of the Buddha. It has been known in Sanskrit since the early days of modern studies of Buddhism, but was long available only in inadequate editions. That has now changed with the publication of the edition of K. Hokazono, now complete in three volumes. The present paper discusses something of the history of the study of the text, Hokazono’s edition, and another recent book by G. Ducoeur that deals with the text, as well as touching on a contribution by Xi He on the poetics of the text. It includes a concordance of a recent translation from Tibetan published by the 84000 project, aligning its sections with the Sanskrit editions of Lefmann and Hokazono.
