敦煌的疑伪经与图像(上)

The Apocryphal Texts from Dunhuang Manuscripts and ItsIconographic Composition(PartⅠ)

疑伪经的内容大多反映了一定时期和地区佛教的传播、民间信仰,以及与其他宗教,尤其是与传统文化结合的情况。敦煌石窟中保存了数量很多的疑伪经和疑伪经图像。通过对其考察和研究,使我们对疑伪经及图像在佛教中国化、世俗化过程中的作用及重要性有了进一步的认识。

A large number of Chinese indigenous scriptures text written anonymously in China to answer specific Chinese concerns,especially reflected a certain period of time in certain places the strong belief among the folks and something that had close context with the traditional Chinese culture and mix up both the cultural elements but which attempted to mimic the style and substance of scriptures translated from India originals into Chinese.There are a large number of such apocryphal text existed among Dunhuang Manuscripts and the figuration presentation found inside of Dunhuang Grottoes.By a careful study of those Chinese indigenous scriptures from Dunhuang Hidden Library,this article attempts to testify the great significance and the value of those apocryphal writings in the study of how those materials had function on the Chinese historical,philosophical and cultural ramifications of Buddhism and the process of Sino-mania Indian Buddhism and reflected the valuable facts in a very commonplace point of view of Chinese Buddhism among Buddhist lag people.