敦煌供养僧服考论(一)——僧装的类型变化

A study of Monastic robe of donors in Dunhuang Murals:Changes of monastic robe (Part Ⅰ)

本文以图像为依据,结合史料,对石窟和出土文物中的供养僧人服装类型及其变化进行探讨。佛教传入中土,各代僧人服饰有所差异。由于地域、民俗风情的不同,敦煌供养僧服在各时代不断变化,其形式多样,与印度原始僧服制度差别较大,显示了中土佛教僧服的复杂性与时代性。

This article studies types of monastic robe wearing by monastic donor in Dunhuang Murals and other relics and lays emphasis on the style that changes taken place on different times based on iconographic searching and historic records. Along with introduce Buddhism into China, different Buddhist schools come along and accepted by different ethnic groups, thus there were different feature of monastic robe showing as times come by. In Dunhuang Murals, there were evident of variant monastic robe in different times. The type of monastic robe of donors are changed and mixed with Chinese monastic element showing not only much differences from original Indian monastic system but Chinese Buddhist stance towards monastic robe.