中古佛典序跋讲说方式的譬喻性

Figurativeness for Buddhist Prefaces and Postscripts in the Mediaeval Times

譬喻是中古佛典序跋重要的讲说方式之一,持续与广泛存在于中古时期的各个阶段与各类题写者所作的佛典序跋中。中古佛典序跋譬喻性的形成是多种因素共同作用的结果,与譬喻本身的属性、对佛教譬喻经的借鉴、中土业已存在的譬论等因素密不可分。中古佛典序跋的譬喻性具有重要价值,不仅使自身形象化、拉近了与诵读者之间的距离、扩大了自身的受众范围,而且把中古各个历史阶段及各类题写者的佛典序跋连接为一个有机整体,构筑起它们之间的共性。

Figurativeness is one of the important and common ways of speaking for Buddhist prefaces and postscripts in the mediaeval times,which resulted from many different kinds of interactive factors and was inseparable from the nature of figurativeness,the references from Buddhist figurative speeches,and China＇s existing figurative speeches. The figurativeness for Buddhist prefaces and postscripts in the mediaeval times was of great significance in that it not only visualized itself,narrowed down the distance among readers,extended its wide-ranging audience,but also connected all the Buddhist prefaces and postscripts at different historical stages and by various authors into an organic whole,and found out their commonness.