德国巴伐利亚州立图书馆藏清代海幢寺刻经述略

The Buddhist Sutras Collection Published by Hoi Tong Monastery in the Qing Dynasty in the Bavarian State Library

德国巴伐利亚州立图书馆收藏有清代广州海幢寺刻经28部,其刻印时间自清初至嘉庆年间,为德国学者诺依曼于1830年带回欧洲。此批刻经在版本上多翻刻或仿刻自《嘉兴藏》;内容上以明清时期名僧与海幢寺僧人的著述为主,兼有少量非佛教著作;刊刻者方面,自清代中后期开始,出现书坊代刻的情况;在刊刻费用方面,海幢寺僧人自行筹集者占相当比重,且花费有逐渐上涨的趋势。

There are 28 works in the Bavarian State Library which were published by Hoi Tong Monastery from the beginning of the Qing dynasty to the Jiaqing period, and brought to Europe by Karl Friedrich Neumann in 1830.These works are mostly reprints or imitation versions from the Jiaxing Tripitaka. The authors were mainly the famous monks in the Ming and Qing dynasties, some of whom came from the Hoi Tong Monastery. Among them, only a few are non-Buddhist works. After the middle of the Qing dynasty, a part of Hoi Tong Monastery's publication was printed by bookshops. The cost of printing was mostly paid by the monks of Hoi Tong Monastery through self-financing, and it seems that this practice increased year by year.