藏族传统时间观念探析

Analysis on Tibetan Traditional Concept of Time

藏族传统的时间观念具有三方面的特征:第一,藏族先民通过对自然界中在时空上呈现出周期性重复出现的各种物候现象和天象的观察与体验,产生了对时间循环性和持续性的认知;第二,藏族先民通过对生命存在有限寿命的体验,以及对自然现象和历史人文不可逆性的感悟,建构出时间的流逝性;第三,古代藏族哲学家较早就有了"时能变、空能启"的相对论时空观,认为时空会反作用于其中的物质,影响物质的运动,时间是相对的,而非是绝对的。

There are three characteristics for Tibetan traditional concept of time： First, ancient Tibetans formed the cognition of the cycle and sustainability of time through observations and experience of the various phenological and celestial phenomena appeared in nature; second, ancient Tibetans constructed the concept of time passage through the experience of limited life existence as well as the perception of irreversibility of natural phenomena and historical human beings; third, ancient Tibetan philosophers already had the theory of relativity of time and space, that is ＂time can change, spatial can open＂, regarded that space will be addition, time was regarded counter-productive and affect the materials inside and their movements. In as a relative concept instead of an absolute one.