由佛门传灯看古代中国的学术传承系谱

From the Genealogies of Buddhism to the Intellectual Ones of Ancient China

佛教的宗派,和古代中国乃至古希腊的"学派"之间,有很多可以互相发明的地方。根据周叔迦先生的研究可以知道,佛教一经一论乃至一咒法的传承谱,是一种追溯,数代单传的脉络是追溯的结果,实际的传承则应该是树状的系谱,有一些传承没有记载下来。这可以帮助我们换一个角度考察老子、孔子世系差别这桩"公案"。而唐人、宋人所记禅宗的两种血脉谱,萨婆多部两种不同的传承谱,其同、异以及可能的缺环,则有助于启发我们疏通先秦至汉初的儒经传承中的一些问题,如《毛诗》的两种传承,《左传》传承中张苍与贾谊的关系问题,榖梁传承人过少的问题,等等。我们应该重视那些没有被记载下来的传承,为之保留可能性,不能过于凿实,随意拿出土文献来比附有记载的传承。

There are something similarities among the sects of Buddhism,the school of ancient China and Greece. According to the research of Mr. Zhou Shujia,we could know that the genealogies of a sutra,a theory or a mantra of Buddhism are ascended,which would help us to understand the difference of the lineage between the Lao-tzu and Confucius. The similarities and differences as well as the possible missing link in the two genealogies of Zen between the Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty,and the two ones of Sapoduobu would help us to answer the questions in the transfers of Confucian classics from pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty,such as the two genealogies of the Mao's Book of Poetry,the connection of Zhang Cang and Jia Yi,and the reason why the descendants of Guliang's Spring and Autumn are few,etc. . We should think much of those lost genealogies,make room for it.