宗教美学视野中的行炉研究

A Study of the Ritual Censer in the Vision of Religious Aesthetics

行炉是中国古代的一种行香礼佛的法器,其可以用于行香礼佛、颐养性情、启迪智慧,它是一种礼的表现,又是一种文化的传承与发展。一方面,随着时代的发展,行炉得到普及,并逐渐成为行香礼佛的必备礼器,以此来表达行香者内心的崇拜和尊敬之意。另一方面,行炉与佛教的关系十分密切,佛教对于行炉的器型的演变有着重要的影响。行炉是人与佛在精神层面沟通、交流的一个物质载体,佛教的宗教信仰渗入器物的创作之中。由此可以看出,行炉的演变不仅受到社会经济文化的影响,佛教文化对于行炉也具有重要的影响,本文通过宗教美学视野来研究行炉的功能、造型、釉色、审美变化,并追溯行炉文化的发展。

Ritual censer is an ancient Chinese Buddhism instrument for offering incense and worshiping Buddha.It can be used for offering incense and worshiping Buddha,maintaining temperament and enlightening wisdom.It is not only a manifestation of ritual,but also a kind of cultural inheritance and development.On one hand,with the development of the times,the censer has been popularized and gradually become a necessary ritual instrument for offering incense and worshiping Buddha,so as to express the inner worship and respect of the worshiper.On the other hand,there is a close relationship between the ritual censer and Buddhism,and Buddhism has an important influence on the evolution of the type of the ritual censer.Ritual censer is a material carrier for human and Buddha to communicate and exchange in the spiritual level,and the religious belief of Buddhism has penetrated into the creation of the utensils.It can be seen that the the ritual censer is not only influenced by social economy and culture during the evolution process,but also has an important influence on the Buddhist culture.This paper studies the function,shape,glaze color and aesthetic changes of the ritual censer from the perspective of religious aesthetics,and traces the development of the ritual censer culture.