水牛寺所蔵絵付折本紙写本全容の構成と内容

抄録

The Folding Book with the illustrations kept in the Buffalo Temple is a Book of Buddhist Prayer recited at the funeral called Samut Thai made of mulberry (khoi) paper written in Pali language, Khom script. This Folding Book has a colophon telling that it was donated by Bunkham because of his wish for nibbana of his father in 1743. The size is 62.5×9.8×4.5 cm. This Book has the one-fold- painting Illustration and 1 6 paired paintings. The Buffalo Temple or the Wat Hua Krabue is located in the district of Bang Khun Thien of Bangkok Prefecture. In this paper the construction of Sutras in this book is first mentioned showing the connection between the Namakara, Sutras and the Illustrations. Those sutras are the first text [Mahabuddhaguna I and II], the second text [Vinayapitaka-Parajika] , the third text [Suttantapitaka-Dighanikaya-Brahmajalasutta], the fourth text [Abhidhammasattapakarana, i.e. Dhammasangani, Vibhanga, Dhatukatha, Puggalapannatti, Kathavatthu, Yamaka, Patthana] and the fifth text [Sahassaneyya]. And then the contents of Sutras and the Illustrations are explained.