中国内地汉晋时期佛教图像考析

A STUDY OF HAN-JIN BUDDHIST PICTURES IN CHINA HINTERLAND

佛教出现之后，公元前5世纪到公元1世纪之间是一个“无佛像时代”。在印度与周边地区发现了很多这一时代的有关佛教遗存，虽有造像，但不出现佛的形象。这一时期佛教确实存在并在演变过程当中，这是研究早期佛教造像的一个需要注意的问题。

Buddhism was introduced into China around the beginning of the Christian Era. Combined with Chinese culture, it became a new type of Buddhist culture with Chinese characteristics, greatly different from original Indian Buddhism. As a significant part of Buddhist culture, its statues left people many important subjects to research： How did the statues spread into China from India？ When were Chinese Buddhist statues brought about？ How did early statues come into being and develop and with what features？ Unfortunately, although there are some records on the initial stage of Buddhism, researchers failed to discover sufficient data belonging to the time before the Eastern Han, and the above questions remain in an enigmatic state.