西夏《金光明最胜王经》信仰研究

Faith in the Suvar■aprabhāsottamarāja-sūtra during the Xixia dynasty

《金光明最胜王经》是一部对唐以后的佛教发展产生很大影响的佛经,在藏经洞和黑水城出土的佛经文献中占相当比例。西夏时期,秉常、仁孝和遵顼皇帝先后对《金光明最胜王经》进行翻译校勘和复译经疏等。蒙元时期,西夏遗民又开始重新雕版,再次刊印此经。可见,此经在西夏信众中占有重要的地位。《金光明最胜王经》在西夏的流传除了得到皇室的支持外,还与佛经无所不能的宣说和西夏社会状况有很大关系。

Suvarnaprabhāsottamarāja-sūtra is one of important canonical Buddhist scriptures,which had great influence in China during the tenth century after the fall of the Tang Dynasty.Many manuscript copies of Suvarn,aprabhāsottamarāja-sūtra were found among Dunhuang manuscripts and documents and texts from Khara Khoto.Several large-scale enterprises for translation,proof-reading and commentation of Buddhist texts took place during the following periods of the Western Xia dynasty:in the reigns of Emperor Bingchang(r.1068-1085),Emperor Renxiao(r.1140-1193)and Emperor Zunxu(r.1211-1222).During the Yuan Dynasty,some printed copies ofSuvarn,aprabhāsottamarāja-sūtra show its renewed popularity,and demonstrate that Suvarn-aprabhāsottamarāja-sūtra had played a very important role at the heart of Buddhism in the Western Xia.The popularity of Suvarnaprabhāsottamarāja-sūtra in the Western Xia Dynasty had also shows that it enjoyed the support of the imperial family of the Western Xia,while the universal monastic dissemination of the sutra to Western Xia society was also of great importance.