《毗蓝园见摩耶夫人》考——传王振鹏《唐僧取经图册》研究之一

An Investigation of Xuanzang's Meeting with Mahamaya at Lumbini:A Series Study of Album of Tangseng Qujing

文章以传元代王振鹏《唐僧取经图册》下册第12图《毗蓝园见摩耶夫人》为例,结合相关图像资料及文字资料,对其文本内容、图像传统及其与明州佛画的渊源等问题加以梳考。认为《唐僧取经图册》的制作并非是孤立于玄奘取经故事之外的特例,而应是在以说话、图像、造像等为载体对玄奘形象进行圣化的背景下产生的作品,其中关于器物形制的认知应来自于宋代的知识系统,并与宋元时流行的明州说话体佛画有一定的渊源。

This paper,taking the painting titled Xuanzang’s Meeting with Lady Mahamaya at Lumbini illustrated in the second volume of Album of Tangseng Qujing as an example,studies its text content,iconographic tradition and its historical relationship with Mingzhou Buddhist paintings.Based on the above analysis this paper believes that the production of this Album is not a special case in isolation from Xuanzang’s story,but a work produced under the background of sanctifying Xuanzang’s image with utterances,images and statues as the carrier.Of which the cognition of the forms of artifacts comes from the knowledge system of the Song Dynasty,which has certain origins with the popular Ming-style Buddhist scriptures of Song and Yuan Dynasties.