邺城佛寺的兴衰

Vicissitudes of the Yecheng Buddhist Temple

2012年1月,邺城考古队在河北省临漳县邺城遗址发掘的一处佛教造像埋藏坑,出土北魏至唐代造像2895件(块),这些造像大多属于东魏北齐皇家寺院,是国内出土佛教造像数量最多的一次发现,展示了北朝晚期邺城作为中原北方地区佛学中心的历史地位,作为六世纪中叶中原北方地区的佛教文化中心,邺城周边地区保存了大量佛教遗迹,是继大同云冈,洛阳龙门之后北方地区佛教石窟寺最集中的地区,尤其值得关注的是,这些石窟寺往往和当时的高僧行止及一些重要的历史事件有密切关联,伴随着邺城考古队三十年的探索,邺城在中国古代都城发展史和佛教艺术史上的历史地位正一步步被揭开。

In January 2012,the archaeology team in Yecheng excavated a pit of Buddhism statues in which 2,895 pieces of statues dated from the Northern Wei Dynasty to Tang Dynasty were unearthed.Most of these statues belonged to royal temples of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty and the number of the unearthed Buddhism statues was the largest ever found in China,which showed us the historical status of Yecheng as the center of Buddhism in north China during the later period of the Northern Dynasty. As the center of Buddhist culture in North China in the middle of the 6th Century,Yecheng is surrounded by a large number of Buddhism relics and it is the most centered area of the Buddhist grotto temples in North China following the Yungang Grottoes in Datong and Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang. What particularly deserved our attention is that these grotto temples were always related to the behavior of eminent monks and some important historical events.With 30 years' exploration made by the archaeology team in Yecheng,the mystery of the history covering the city has been gradually unveiled,showing the historical status of Yecheng in both the history of the development of Chinese ancient capital cities and the history of Buddhist art.