菊谷 竜太

A book of Mikkyo(密教) which I took in my high school days aroused my interest in Indian Tāntric Buddhism. After entering University, I was getting more interested in the cultural transmission from India to Tibet. The later Indian Buddhists, especially Abhayākaragupta(around 11-12th) who was one of last abbots Nālanda and Vikramaśīla monastery, had transferred their “fruit of intellect” collected over hundreds of years to the “Country of Snow(Himālaya)” before the fall of Indian Buddhism(the destruction of Vikramaśīla, A.D.1193). I am interested in analyzing the Complex Culture of Indo-Tibetan Tāntric Ritual including Architecture, Iconology, Astronomy and Medicine. Among them, my chief concern is embryology and thanatology in Maṇḍala-theory. On the Hakubi project, I will focus on study of Āmnāyamañjarī; the Encyclopedic commentary of Abhayākara, based on the New-found Sanskrit-Tibetan Bilingual codex. Furthermore, I will proceed with the project, Indo-Tibetan Terminological Resource.