贵霜琐罗亚斯德教神祇研究的回顾与展望

Retrospect and Prospect for the Studies of Kushan Zoroastrianism Deities

贵霜琐罗亚斯德教神祇研究的资料来源主要为钱币与罗巴塔克铭文;研究范式包括宗教归类、行星体系、数量增减、频率主次、希腊影响及音序排列六种;研究方法主要为语言文字比较法和宗教图像比堪法。在贵霜琐罗亚斯德教神祇图像的希腊起源、独立性及帝王开放的宗教态度等方面,学界观点渐趋一致;在个别神祇的比定上,学界分歧较大。在语言比堪、图像比堪、神祇系统(横向)、历史演变(纵向)等方面,贵霜琐罗亚斯德教神祇研究有进一步挖掘的空间。

The main sources for the studies of Kushan Zoroastrianism deities are coins and Rabatak inscription.The research paradigm includes six kinds,such as religious classification,planetary system,quantity increase and decrease,frequency primary and secondary,Greek influence and sequence arrangement.The methods of study are mainly language comparison and religious image comparison.Some academic views are becoming more consistent,such as the Greek origin,Kushan deity independence,and the emperor s open religious attitude.At the same time,there are different ideas about the name of some deities.There are further excavating space for the studies of Kushan Zoroastrianism deities,such as language comparison,image comparison,deity system(horizontal),historical evolution(vertical) and so on.