我国传统论赞文体的源流及其与敦煌佛赞之异同

The Origin of the Traditional Style of Commentary and Praise as well as the Differences of Dunhuang Buddha's Praise

我国传统论赞文体起源很早,后来论赞发生分流,论在形式上表现为散体文字,赞在形式上为整齐的四言句式。敦煌佛赞有的继承了我国历史上人物赞和史赞的传统,也为整齐的四言体式,而大部分佛赞作品为七言或五言诗体形式。笔者在对我国古代论赞形式的源流变化进行梳理的基础上,进一步探讨敦煌佛赞与我国传统论赞的异同及其在形式上的继承与发展,指出敦煌佛赞形式中包含有印度古代重视赞叹传统的因素,体式上为整齐的诗体形式,因而统称其为佛教"赞歌"更为确切。

The traditional style of commentary and praise has a long history in our country , the style later became two styles the style of commentary and the style of praise. From the style point of view, the commentary shows random words and the praise shows the senlence structure of neat four - word. Praise to Buddha is an important part of Dunhuang literature, Part of literature inherited praise to people and praise to history,the part of the literature is neat four - word style, and most of the type Dunhuang literature is seven - word - poems style or five - word - poems style. Through discussing the origin and change of the commentary and praise in ancient Chinese, the author further ex- plores the similarities and differences between Praise to Buddha in Dunhuang literature and the commentary and praise in Chinese tradition, and Praise to Buddha in Dunhuang literature inheritances and developments the form of the commentary and praise in Chinese tradition. The author points out that there was a tradition of attaching importance to the commentary and praise in ancient Indian, this factor exists in the Praise to Buddha of Dunhuang literature, the style of the Praise to Buddha of Dunhuang literature is the neat poems style. The author thinks that this type of literature is more accurate to refer to it as Hymns to Buddhist.