蜀中定光佛造像寻踪——从广安冲相寺到龙泉驿元堡

Trace of Dingguang Buddha Statue in Sichuan:From Chongxiang Temple in Guang'an to Yuanbao in Longquanyi

小引位于四川广安市肖溪镇的冲相寺摩崖造像,是蜀地规模较大的早期佛教摩崖造像群之一。主要分布于寺后定光岩上的摩崖造像,刻造时间可以上溯至隋开皇八年(588),一直延续到民国年间。无论是造像题材之丰富,还是造像规模之宏大,在川东北地区都是比较罕见的,也因之独具研究与鉴赏价值。据《广安冲相寺摩崖造像及石刻调查纪要》^(①)一文统计,此处现存摩崖造像近50龛,有各类造像400余尊,还有各个时期的题刻30余幅。遗憾的是,因“文革”期间受到人为破坏,所有龛像均毁损严重,不复旧观。

Taking the dingguang Buddha statue of chongxiang temple in Guang'an in the northeast of Sichuan Province as a reference,combined with the newly discovered dingguang Buddha statue of Yuanbao,Longquanyi,Chengdu,Sichuan,this paper briefly describes the basic style,carving age and distribution area of the only two known statues of the same type in China.In addition,because the statue of dingguang Buddha in Yuanbao,Longquanyi is one of the combined statue niches,and the stone niches are seriously damaged as a whole,various possibilities of the niches or niches of Trikalea Buddhas,Five square Buddha and Seven Buddhas are preliminarily explored;On this basis,this paper discriminates and infers the process of the evolution of dingguang Buddha statues from single niche master statues to one of the combined statues in Bashu area,as well as the relationship between“interaction”and“fusion”among Trikalea Buddhas,Five square Buddha and Seven Buddhas niches.