扬州籍名臣徐铉佛禅诗谫论

Research on the Buddhist Zen Poetry of Xu Xuan,the Famous Minister from Yangzhou

徐铉佛禅类诗歌作品中所展现的,是一位颇喜游览寺院、广结僧众(尤其是艺僧)、深受轮回观念影响的士大夫形象。这样的士大夫形象,在唐宋时代是普遍存在的。在他们的观念世界中,寺院更多作为游赏佳处而非宗教场所存在,僧侣更像一位位身着袈裟的士人,而非灰身灭智的苦行僧,而来源于释教的轮回转世的学说,更是成为了一种日用不察的本土观念。

What Xu Xuan wrote about in his Buddhist Zen poetry is an image of intellectuals who likes visiting temples,widely makes friends with monks( especially artistic monks),and is deeply influenced by the concept of reincarnation. Such a scholar-bureaucrat image was widespread in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In their conceptual world,monasteries are more tourist attractions than religious places and monks are more like an intellectual who is dressed in awkwardness than an ascetic monk. The doctrine of reincarnation from Buddhism has become a local concept of daily use without observation.