Data Collected by FROGBEAR Cluster 2.5: From the Canonical to the Post-canonical

Photographic material collected by FROGBEAR Cluster 2.5, From the Canonical to the Post-canonical in 2017 in Japan. The 2017 field visit of Cluster 2.5 was led by Dr. Toshinori Ochiai of the ICPBS in Tokyo. The field visits were designed to investigate how we can significantly augment digital databases of Buddhist literature in Chinese (e.g., http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw and http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp) with digitized manuscripts from old Japanese manuscript Buddhist canons and consideration for rare, xylographic printed texts and editions carved in stone. Japanese manuscripts have the potential to significantly expand our understanding of the manuscripts found in so-called library cave (no. 17) of the Caves of Unparalleled Heights near the city of Dunhuang, in China, at the turn of the 20th century. Nara, Heian and Kamakura period (8th – 14th centuries) Japanese manuscript canons complement and complete the Dunhuang manuscripts (in Chinese) and advance the long-term goal of developing critical, textual analysis of the literature of East Asian Buddhism. To serve this purpose, participants in cluster 2.5 visited sites where manuscript and printed canons are preserved, conducting on-the-spot investigations and collecting firsthand information about the production and transmission of the Chinese Buddhist Canon cataloged during the 8th century in China (see cluster 2.2). Participants in cluster 2.5 also paid close attention to the transmission of monastic biographies, scriptural catalogs, and certain well-read commentaries to the Flower Garland Sūtra 華嚴經 (60 and 80 roll translations). In 2017, Dr. Ochiai led a team to learn how researchers in the Research Institute for Old Japanese Manuscripts of Buddhist Scriptures (RIOJMJC) at the ICPBS who have produced the Old Buddhist Manuscripts in Japanese Collections (OBMJC) Database digitize manuscripts and study the communities who copied and preserved these manuscripts. Participants visited Nanatsudera 七寺 (in Nagoya), Kongōji 金剛寺 (in Osaka), Kōshōji 興聖寺 (in Kyoto), and Iwayaji 岩屋寺 (in the Minami Chita district of Aichi Prefecture 愛知県南知多町) to investigate targeted manuscript Buddhist texts in different versions. At Iwayaji, participants examined specimens from the first woodblock printed Buddhist canon that was produced in China (971-983). The research team learned how experts from the RIOJMJC digitize manuscripts and determine the criteria for selection. Participants also learned about the invaluable work that has been completed by the RIOJMJC to digitize most of the manuscript canons from Kongōji and Nanatsudera, but not the sacred transmitted documents (shōgyō 聖教) kept alongside these canons.

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