清代五台山:一个历史人类学的观察

Mount Wutai in Qing Dynasty China:A Historical Anthropology Observation

清代宫廷以包容性逻辑,出于论证一统天下的合法性,迥乎寻常地在五台山崇奉藏传佛教,使五台山成为以清宫廷为中心的天下的过渡地带和帝国的隐喻,并造就出乎意料的社会历史后果,使诸族在这里交相参照并建构自身文明的身份。

To legitimate its rule over ＂the world under the heaven,＂ the Qing Dynasty unusually worshiped Tibetan Buddhism on Mt.Wutai.The Buddhist pilgrims on Mt.Wutai therefore deployed the cross-index relations among Manchus,Mongolians,Tibetans,and Han Chinese.Those relations were exercised under the patron of Manchu emperors and were both subsumed and supported by Manchu cosmopolitan cosmology,forming a unique type of civilization in East Asia,which made Mt.Wutai a place of middle ground as well as a metaphor of Qing China.