浙江杭州出土《僧璨砖塔铭》刊刻年代献疑

A Critical Review of the Date of the Inscriptions on a Tower Brick Dedicated by Sengcan from Hangzhou,Zhejiang

出土于浙江杭州的《僧璨砖塔铭》,被学界认为是研究中国佛教禅宗传灯体系的一件重要资料。笔者通过大量文献资料的研究,尤其是对唐代相关石刻的分析对比,认为该塔铭刊刻年代并非自题的所谓"大隋开皇十二年",很可能是唐代禅宗兴起之后禅宗信徒们伪造出的一件反映禅宗传灯世系的实物,刊刻时间不早于九世纪后期。

Yielded from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, the Sencan Tazhuanming （the tower brick inscriptions dedicated by Sengcan） is widely viewed as an important piece of data for studying the Chuandeng branch of Zen Buddhist school. The author is trying to raise concerns with the date of the inscriptions. According to a comparative study of textual data and other relevant inscriptions during the Tang Dynasty, this paper proposes that the date might not be the Kaihuang twelve year of the Sui Dynasty. Instead, the inscriptions might have been fabricated by Zen believers after the rise of the Zen school during the Tang Dynasty. In other words, the Terminus ante quem of the texts should be around the second half of the ninth century.