论西方学者对于杭州保俶塔的研究

On the Studies of the Needle Pagoda in Hangzhou by Western Scholars

杭州宝石山上的保俶塔具有一千多年的历史,是当地最古老的建筑之一。但令人遗憾的是,在西湖即将申请世界文化遗产的今天,国内却找不到一篇论述保俶塔历史的学术论文。与之形成鲜明对比的是,西方的学者在清末民初就对保俶塔的历史产生了浓厚的兴趣,有的甚至还对此进行过精深的研究。这些研究至今仍具有很高的参考价值,可惜的是,国内的相关部门对此所知甚微。本文拟根据现在仍能找到的文字和图像资料,对于这几位西方学者考察和研究保俶塔演变史的过程进行初步的梳理,并对其研究成果作一番简略的介绍。

The Needle Pagoda in Hangzhou has a history of more than a thousand years,and it is one of the oldest architectures in this ancient city.Yet unfortunately,on the eve of the application of the West Lake in Hangzhou for the candidacy of the World Cultural Heritage,we cannot find any academic studies on the evolution of this famous pagoda in the Chinese literature.On the other hand,a few Western scholars became deeply interested in this ancient pagoda as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning o...