Review Article: Wrestling with the Mahāvastu: Struggling with Structure and Interpretation: A Critical Comment on Recent Researches on a Major Lokottaravāda Vinaya Text
1. Vincent Tournier, La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva [École française d’Extrême-Orient. Monographies, nº 195] Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2017. XXIV + 631 pp. ISBN 9782855391335
2. The Mahāvastu. A New Edition by M. Marciniak Volume II [Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV. 2] Tokyo: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 2020. XXI + 571 pp. ISBN 9784904234198 and Volume III. [Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV. 1] Tokyo: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 2019. XXXV + 600 pp. ISBN 9784904234181.
目次
1 Introduction 26 2 History of Research on the Mahāvastu (Editions and Translations) 26 3 The Structure of the Mahāvastu 28 4 The Mahāvastu and the Mahāsāṃghikalokottaravāda Vinaya 37 5 Remarks on “La formation du Mahāvastu” 39 5.1 Introduction 39 5.2 The Title Mahāvastu 40 5.3 On madhyoddeśika Again 42 5.4 The Mahāvastu as a Canonical Mahāsāṃghikalokottaravāda Text 44 5.5 On the Structure of the Mahāvastu 45 5.6 The Career of a Bodhisatva 49 5.7 The Origin of Mahāyāna (Bodhisatvayāna) 57 5.8 The Daśabhūmika Chapter in the Mahāvastu 59 5.9 Concluding Remarks on “La formation.” 64 6 The New Edition of the Mahāvastu 65 Appendix I: Outline of Structure and Content of the Mahāvastu 70 Appendix 2: Mahāvastu: Contents by Page Numbers 91
