2 0 0 0 OA 神話上のアスラと史実のアスラ
- 著者
- 冨田 真浩
- 出版者
- 日本印度学仏教学会
- 雑誌
- 印度學佛教學研究 (ISSN:00194344)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.69, no.1, pp.461-456, 2020-12-25 (Released:2021-09-06)
- 参考文献数
- 12
The usage of the word Asura differs depending on whether people in the past took Asura as good or evil beings. In my Ph. D. thesis, I threw light on the historical usage of the word Asura in the Vedas, Nikāyas, and early Mahāyāna sūtras, literature created before the dawn of the Common Era. I also investigated the difference between Asura in myths and human Asura, as the usage of the word Asura was applied to each group. Additionally, I found that Asura were written about not only as human beings in some situations but also as spirits in others. In a former study, I examined sūtras but did not examine Vinayas or later sources. Therefore now I use the Mahāvastu and the Datang Xiyu ji大唐西域記,a travelogue of Xuanzang玄奘,and the Datang daci’ensi sanzang fashi zhuan大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師伝,a biography of Xuanzang, and I examine the influence of the historical human Asura on the rise in mythical Asura of scriptures from various viewpoints.
