从授记到结构化——佛菩萨信仰的演化——以于阗佛菩萨信仰为例

The Evolution of Bodhisattva Belief: Taking Bodhisattva Belief in Khotan as an Example

本文通过对于阗佛教中佛菩萨崇拜的分析,指出早期的菩萨崇拜是未与佛崇拜结合并未经体系化,体现的是佛菩萨对王权的护佑、对国祚的振隆之意义。这种模式建构了佛教菩萨与名山的关系;随着佛教理论的传播和体系化,菩萨崇拜与佛结合起来,进入结构化组合模式。由于其理论受不同经典体系的影响,这种组合模式在石窟和殿堂中运用较多。

Through the analysis of Bodhisattva worship in the Buddhism in Khotan,the author indicates that Bodhisattva worship,not being combined with Buddha worship and systematized in its early phase,reflected the protection of royalty and consolidation of state power by Bodhisattva. This mode established the relation between Bodhisattva and famous mountains. Along with the spread of Buddhist theory and its systematization,Bodhisattva worship was combined with Buddha and a structuralized composite mode came into being. This composite mode,theoretically influenced by different Buddhist scriptural systems,was applied mostly in caves and shrines.