齐梁之际皇室参与下的讲经活动及文学书写

Buddhist Lecturing and Literary Writing with the Participation of the Royal Family during the Period of Qi and Liang Dynasties

齐梁之时,随着佛教传播的不断深入,皇室中信奉佛教者越来越多,他们自己雄厚的政治经济实力,进行了不少相关活动,而组织和参与讲经宣教就是其中之一。这些皇室成员或招请僧人入京说法,或亲临寺院听讲,或亲自充任法师,为建康讲经活动的繁荣起到了重要的推动作用。在讲经活动中,产生了大量的文本,如全程记录活动的讲序、讲经活动结束后宣读的解讲诗等等,这些文本的作者大多是参与讲经活动的士族官员。值得注意的是,在这些由士人创作的文本中往往对讲经的具体内容和过程很少涉及,而通过各种典故和意象的铺排对皇室成员进行赞颂的内容却占据了大量的篇幅,这非常明显地体现出了齐梁应制文学的特点。

During the Qi and Liang dynasties,more and more royal family members had been converted as the continuous penetration of Buddhism in China.They used their rich political and economic resources to carry on many religious activities,including organizing Buddhist sutras reading and lecturing.These royal family members sometimes inviting the monks to the capital to give lectures,attending the lectures or give lecture themselves,greatly promoted the prosperity of Buddhist activity in the capital.Along with these activities,many literary texts were created,such as the minute of the lecture,related poems after the lectures,mostly written by the scholars and officials who participated the activities.It is worth noting that there were frequently much more euphuistic praise for the royal family members than description of the contents of lectures in these texts,reflecting the characteristics of Qi and Liang’s emperor-dominated literature.