汉代铜人像和佛像初传考

A Study on the First Biographies of Bronze Figures and Buddha Statues in the Han Dynasty

在佛教正式传入中土以前,西汉已出现了具有佛像特征的模式化铜人像,出于各种原因,学术界对这些造像属性的解释观点不一。本文依据文献中有关印度和中国最早出现佛像的记载,将现存汉代铜人像与佛像进行样式比较,讨论其与佛教存在的关联。

Before Buddhism was officially introduced into China,there had been patterned copper figures with the characteristics of Buddha figures in the Western Han Dynasty.For various reasons,the academic circles had different interpretations of the attributes of these figures.Based on the records of the earliest Buddha statues in India and China in the literature,this paper compares the existing bronze figures and Buddha statues in the Han Dynasty,and discusses their relationship with the existence of Buddhism.