文本变异与文献整理——从《释氏源流》的一则校勘谈起

Text Variation and Literature Collation——Based on One Collation of The Origins of Buddhism

文本变异是写钞本文化研究中常被提及的话题之一,从文献整理的角度来说,复杂的变异文本给传统的辑佚、校勘、训诂等学术方法带来了挑战。《释氏源流》编撰者释宝成在《康僧舍利》一段中对原典文献的一处"改订",充分说明了文本生成过程的复杂性。基于文本变异理论的文献整理问题开始受到学界的普遍关注。

Text variation is one of the topics that often mentioned in the study of written transcripts culture.From the perspective of literature collation,complex variant texts bring challenges to traditional academic methods such as collection,collation and exegesis.Shi Baocheng,the compiler of The Origins of Buddhism,made a“change of meaning”to the original literature in a paragraph of Kang Seng Saili,which fully illustrated the complexity of the text generation process.The document collation based on text variation theory has begun to attract widespread attention in academic circle.