Yamanaka Yukio, Yamashita Tsutomu
Bukkyo University Research Institute.
Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi. 2009 Mar;55(1):77-96.
Although India has its own traditional medical systems such as Ayurveda, healing through magic spells was also practiced. After the systematization of Ayurveda, these healing spells almost lost their significance and only the spells for specific diseases were further transmitted. On the other hand, Indian Buddhism partially accepted the healing spells, and Buddhist texts which include the healing spells began to appear after the 4th century. These texts were brought into other Asian countries and became popular therein. However, these Buddhist healing spells have not been studied enough by Buddhism scholars and therefore their meaning in the history of medicine in India is not yet sufficiently understood. In this article, we discuss on the origin of these Buddhist healing spells, and thereafter we list and summarize the existing Buddhist texts involving these healing spells.
尽管印度有自己的传统医学体系，如阿育吠陀医学，但通过咒语治病的方式也存在。在阿育吠陀医学系统化之后，这些治病咒语几乎失去了意义，只有针对特定疾病的咒语得以进一步传承。另一方面，印度佛教部分接纳了治病咒语，包含治病咒语的佛教文献在4世纪之后开始出现。这些文献被带到其他亚洲国家并在那里流行起来。然而，佛教学者对这些佛教治病咒语的研究还不够充分，因此它们在印度医学史上的意义尚未得到充分理解。在本文中，我们讨论这些佛教治病咒语的起源，然后列出并总结现有的涉及这些治病咒语的佛教文献。
