@article{oai:rissho.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008453,
 author = {苅谷, 定彦 and KARIYA, Sadahiko},
 issue = {47},
 journal = {法華文化研究, Journal of Institute for The Comprehensive Study of Lotus Sutra},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The author of this paper, Dr. Sadahiko Kariya, supposes that the composer of the Indian
original scripture of the Saddharmapundarīka-sūtra or the Lotus Sutra could be an
abscure unknown Buddhist monk who was disappointed to be born in the age after the
passing of the Buddha and craved to meet with the Buddha and to listen to His
teachings. It is supposed that the monk might practice meditation in search of
enlightenment so earnestly and deeply that he reached the highest state of religious
experience in which he could meet with the Buddha ever living and teaching and listen
to His true words. After returning from the religious experience to ordinary life, the
monk intended to propagate accurately the truth that every sentient being has
possibility of becoming Buddha and he composed the Lotus Sutra prudently enough to
avoid a mistake or a misunderstanding. The Indian original of the Lotus Sutra should be
constructed the consistent plot and completed with attention to every detail by the
honest monk.
　However, the current Lotus Sutra consisting of twenty-seven or twenty-eight chapters
can not be regarded as the consistent completed work because it is contaminated with
inconsistency and contradiction between chapters and even in each chapter. Dr. Kariya
considers that the inconsistency and the contradiction in the Sutra were caused by
additional or inserted parts different from the original in later ages, which is called ‘later
part’（ 後分） by him, and he has closely read throughout the current Lotus Sutra in order
to remove the ‘later part’ and to restore the Indian original of the Lotus Sutra. According
to his judgment, the original Lotus Sutra consisted of only twelve chapters.
　In this paper, the sixth chapter of Dharma-bhānaka（ 法師品） was minutely examined.
As a result of close reading of it, it was turned out that this chapter also contains many
‘later parts’ and the key word ‘dharma-bhānaka’ occurs fewer times in limited passages
despite the title of the chapter. Accordingly, it is supposed that the original of this
chapter should have been less in volume than it could be an independent chapter, and
that the original passages should have belonged to the next chapter of Stūpa-samdarśana
as an introductory part of it.},
 pages = {11--46},
 title = {『法華経』「法師品」の精読―インド・オリジナル『法華経』を求めて（Ｖ）―},
 year = {2021}
}