著者

石濱 裕美子

出版者

東洋史研究會

雑誌

東洋史研究 (ISSN:03869059)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.2, pp.230-250, 1992-09-30

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The fifth Dalai Lama entrusted his own royal authority to the Regent Sangs in 1679. However, since the regent was a layperson and the Dalai Lama a priest, there are many unclear points concerning the nature of royal authority in this period. This paper examines the nature of royal authority in this period through Regent Sangs's conception of it, with special reference to his portraitas Manjusri, to his history of incarnation, and to his claim to be Cakravartin raja. This article concludes that Regent Sangs's theory of incarnation was in nature the same as the Dalai Lama's, that both were understood to be the Buddha in their original nature regardless of the distinction between priest and laity. Lay rulers prior to the emergence of the Dalai Lama regime had presented genealogical records to explain their origins. However, although the Regent Sangs came to power like them from among the laity, he did not take his distinguished genealogy as the basis for his authority, but rather his claim to be a 'Buddha incarnate' instead. Thus it might be said that the nature of royal authority under the Dalai Lama regime was different from that of the pre-Dalai Lama period.