邺城地区佛教造像的发现及相关问题的探索

Discovery of Buddhist Images in the Yecheng Area and Study of Related Problems

邺下佛学在北朝晚期达到全盛,并于公元六世纪中期前后取代洛阳成为中原北方地区的佛教文化和艺术中心。自1950年代以来,河北邯郸邺城遗址及周边地区先后出土了大量的佛教造像,尤其是2012年初邺城东郊北吴庄佛教造像埋藏坑的发现最为重要。本文简要介绍了邺城地区的主要佛教遗迹、造像的出土情况及时代特征,并就东魏北齐时期邺城造像的材质产地、工匠系统进行了初步的探索。

In the Yecheng Area, Buddhism reached its full bloom in the late Northern Dynasties Period. Around the mid sixth century AD, this zone replaced Luoyang City as the center of Buddhist culture and art in the northern Central Plains. Since the 1950s, numbers of Buddhist images have been unearthed from the Hebei Handan Yeeheng Site and its adjacent areas. Among them the most important find is the hoard of Buddhist statues discovered at Beiwuzhuang in the eastern suburb of Yecheng in early 2012. The present paper accounts briefly the discovery of the main Buddhist remains and images in the Yeeheng area and their chronological features, and makes preliminary researches on the material source and craftsman system of Yecheng images in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi periods.