ROBERT KRITZER is Professor at Kyoto Notre Dame University.
摘要
"Garbhavakrantisutra, (the Sutra on entry into the womb) is a sutra on a description of conception, the [38] weeks of gestation, birth and the sufferings that afflict all beings after birth. Accounts of the rebirth process can be found in several Buddhist sutras, meditation manuals, and doctrinal texts from as early as the first several centuries of the Common Era....Garbhavakrantisutra does not mention the moment of death but otherwise contains probably the most complete and detailed description of rebirth."--Introduction. Translation from the Chinese and Tibetan translations of the Sanskrit work, no longer extant. The book provides considerable information comparing the various extant translations of the sutra.
目次
Acknowledgments. ix OVERVIEW OF GARBHĀVAKRĀNTISŪTRA 1. Introduction. 3 2. Synopsis of Garbhāvakrāntisūtra. 5 3. Versions and Translations of Garbhāvakrāntisūtra. 9 4. Garbhāvakrāntisūtra and Classical Indian Medical Literature. 10 Conception. 11 Composition of the Embryo. 13 Gestation. 15 5. Descriptions of the Vagina in Garbhāvakrāntisūtra. 20 6. Worms, Demons, and Diseases. 24 GARBHĀVAKRĀNTISŪTRA: ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 37 CHINESE AND TIBETAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE SŪTRA. 109 1. Tibetan Translation in Vinayakṣudrakavastu (Tohoku 6). 111 2. Chinese Translations. 111 Pao-t'ai ching (T317). 111 Fo wei A-nan shuo ch'u-t'ai hui (T310/13). 116 Ju-t'ai ching (T1451, T310/14). 118 3. Tibetan Translations from the Chinese. 139 Tshe daṅ ldan pa dga' bo la mṅal du 'jug pa bstan pa (Tohoku 58). 139 Dga' bo la mṅal na gnas pa bstan pa (Tohoku 57). 154 INTRODUCTION TO A CRITICAL EDITION OF TOHOKU 6. 201 1. Tibetan Manuscripts and Editions. 203 2. Stemma of Garbhāvakrāntisūtra in Tohoku 6 and Variant Readings. 206 3. General Procedure in the Critical Apparatus. 224 CRITICAL EDITION OF GARBHĀVAKRĀNTISŪTRA. 225 CONCORDANCE OF THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SŪTRA. 417 List of works Cited. 427 Index. 435
