鉴真书状再考

Jianzhen's Letter Re-examined

日本正仓院文书中保存的鉴真书状虽有"鉴真状白"的落款,但从文字改写、修正加笔以及笔法运用等细节来看,撰写者的视力是非常清晰的。从纸背被再次利用等来看,该书状为一般事务性文书,并非鉴真自己撰写,而是其弟子代笔的。鉴真借阅《华严经》等佛经,是为了确定这些在日流播的大乘佛教经典的文本状况。该书状表明鉴真对当时日本的经书校勘事业非常关心。

Abstract： While the letter held in Shosoin has the signature of Jianzhen, it must have been written by a man whose eyesight couldn＇t be as poor as Jianzhen＇s. It is claimed that, being only a common busi ness letter, it was not written by Jianzhen himself but by his disciple. The letter was written for bor rowing sutras, which shows that Jianzhen was concerned about the sutra collation in Japan at that time.