中国古代和韩国古代的佛教舍利容器

Ancient Buddhist Sarrira Containers in China and the Republic of Korea

综合有关中国佛教舍利塔基和所瘗埋舍利容器的考古发现,可以将北朝至唐代舍利瘗埋制度的发展演变分为四个阶段:北朝早期,北朝晚期、隋至唐初,唐高宗至武宗灭法,宣宗复法至唐末。中国古代的佛教舍利容器传播到朝鲜半岛南部的百济、新罗等古代国家,并与当时当地的传统文化相结合,使其具体形貌有所变化。

This paper makes an integrated study of the Buddhist sarrira stupas and the sarrira containers buried in them that are discovered in Chinese archaeology. It concludes that the evolutionary course of the sarrira burying institution in the Northern Dynasties period to the Tang Dynasty can be divided into four stages, i.e. the early Northern Dynasties period, the late Northern Dynasties and Sui periods to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Gaozong reign to the time of Wuzong＇s abolishing Buddhism, and the time of Xuanzong＇s restoring Buddhism to the late Tang. Similar to the spread of Buddhism via China to the southern Korean peninsula, ancient Chinese Buddhist sarrira containers were spread to ancient Paekche and Silla in the south of the Korean peninsula, and were amalgamated with the then local traditional culture, which led to the morphologic change of sarrira containers. So this type of find from Ancient China and Korea demonstrates the interaction and interrelation between the ancient cultures of the two countries.