华肆有番佛:泉州的泰米尔商人寺庙

Tamil Merchants and a Shiva Temple in Quanzhou

该译文选自2012年美国哥伦比亚大学李俏梅(Dr.Risha Lee)的博士学位论文《社区的构成:印度与中国的泰米尔商人寺庙(850—1281)》第四章及结论部分。本文主要讨论了前近代时期的中印交流,对散落在泉州各个区域的印度教石刻做出了诠释,并对此时期生活在泉州的印度商人的情况进行了探讨。尤为重要的是,本文通过逐个分析现存的印度教石构件,勾勒出了元代泉州湿婆寺的复原图。

The translation is excerpted from Dr. Risha Lee’s Ph.D. dissertation entitled Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281 submitted to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University in 2012. Comprising Chapter Four and Conclusion part of her dissertation, this article studies the Shiva Temple of Quanzhou with a focus on the Sino-Indic exchanges during the premodern period, the interpretation of Hindu stone carvings scattered in different parts of Quanzhou while picturing a landscape of Tamil migrant merchants from southern India sojourning in the coastal entrepot. What is important in particular is that the author outlines a restoration map of Shiva Temple in Quanzhou built in the Yuan Dynasty based on the careful examination of almost all the extant individual Indic carvings.