从北印度到布里亚特:蒙古人视野中的旃檀佛像

From North India to Buryatia:The Sandalwood Buddha from The Mongols' Perspective

本文通过对旃檀佛像"生平"的一个简要介绍和对北京城中最后一座供奉此像的寺院的描述,讨论了北京作为蒙古人朝圣地的形成,并尝试探讨旃檀佛的信仰如何通过民间传说和官方记载在蒙古民族中流传。最后,作者展示了这尊佛像在清代北京、西藏和蒙古的不同复制品,以此强调这个形象的不同表现在藏、蒙、汉地佛教徒中有着广泛的认同。

Through a short 'biography' of the statue of the Sandalwood Buddha and description of the last Beijing temple that enshrined it,the paper discusses the construction of Beijing as a site of pilgrimage for Mongols,tries to understand how the Sandalwood Buddha legend circulated in Mongolia through popular tales and official narratives.At last,it presents different replicas of the statue in Qing dynasty Beijing,in Tibet and in Mongolia to highlight the different interpretations of this image common to Tibetans,Mongols,and Chinese Buddhists.