敦煌本《金光明经》残卷缀合研究

On the Restoration of the Fragments of the Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra from Dunhuang Documents

经对现已公布的敦煌文献图版的全面普查,可确定的昙无谶译《金光明经》写卷有280号之多(其中41号残片系我们比定),绝大多数为残卷或残片,其中不乏本为同一写卷而撕裂为数号者。本文以中国国家图书馆藏、英国国家图书馆藏及甘肃省各家馆藏为中心,通过内容、裂痕、行款、书风等方面的比较分析,把其中的31号残卷缀合成9组。

A general investigation of all published Dunhuang documents confirms that there are 280 manuscripts of＂ the Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra （the Golden Light Sutra） translated by Dharmaksema, forty-one of which have just recently been identified. Most of these are incomplete scrolls or fragments, and some of them once belonged to the same manuscript. This paper focuses on the Dunhuang documents collected in the Na- tional Library of China, the British Library, and in other collections in Gansu Province, and sorts thirty-one fragments into nine groups by comparing their texts, cracks, formats, and calligraphic styles.