古代インドの霊魂観--概要

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The author of this paper in cooperation with Ryuta Takada as translation consultant has attempted to put E.Arbman (1891～1959)'s long and important article“, Untersuchungen zur primitiven Seelenvorstellung mit besonderer Rucksicht auf Indien Ⅱ, Altindischer Seelenglaube, sein Ursprung und seine Entwicklung, Monde Oriental , 21, 1927, pp.1-185, into Japanese. It is possible to say that Arbman was the first scholar of religious studies who combined Indian philology with anthropology. In this sense his research is very unique and still valuable. He tried to examine the transmigration or metempsychosis theory of the soul in the Upanishads in terms of the continuity of the Vedic thought. It is important that he regarded such kind of theory as one that belonged to the “primitive”cultures. It seems that his radical proposition to interpret Indian philosophy as “primitive”ethnological theory could have been quite reaonable as Levi-Strauss also developed a similar approach in his noted work The Savage Mind.
東北芸術工科大学,トウホクゲイジュツコウカダイガク,Tohoku University of Art and Designの論文