摘要
《西游记》中的孙悟空与中亚神话里的密特拉存在着共通的间性关系:它们都是石头所生,都是武士,都富有正义精神,都是如来佛降伏的外道,都使用铁棒,都与牛争斗过,都不好女色,都与公野猪为战友等。"密特拉"与"弥勒"在词源学上具有同一性,在雅利安人神话中指同一神祇。弥勒佛是弥赛亚救世和创立新世界的表征符号。在粟特人的神话中,弥勒即摩尼。摩尼教宣扬杀戮以解脱,这是孙悟空大闹天宫、降妖除怪的宗教根底。
There is a common interness relationship between Monkey King in Journey to the West and Mitra in the inner Asia myth:both were born by the stone;both are warlords;both are for justice,both were demons converted to Buddha,both fought with ox,both their weapons are iron clubs,both their comrade-in-arms are boars,etc..Mitra or Mithra share the same root as Maitreya;they are the one god.Maitreya is the Messiah who saves the world and creates a new world.Maitreya is Mani in the Sogdian myth.Manicheism advocates killing for the moksha,which is the religious base of rebelling and slaughtering of Monkey King.
作者
张同胜
ZHANG Tongsheng(School of Chinese Literature,Lanzhou University,Lanzhou 730020,China)
