国外藏文传记研究现状及思考

Current Status and Reflections on Research of Tibetan Biographies Abroad

藏文传记是藏族传统文学、史学和宗教学的重要文类,是中华民族优秀传统文化和中华古籍文献的重要组成部分。20世纪60年代,随着传记学研究的兴起,藏文传记逐渐成为国外藏学研究的一个专题领域。自20世纪90年代以来,随着研究的进一步深入,藏文传记研究的交叉视野和创新成果为藏学发展注入了新鲜活力,成为国外藏学研究中引人注目的研究领域。文章通过梳理近30年来国外研究藏文传记的主要英文成果,基于传记类型和研究内容,初步将相关成果分为四大研究主题,详细介绍了每个专题领域代表性成果的主要内容、理论方法和研究视角,剖析了主流的学科框架、命题概念和研究进路,并结合新近研究呈现的学术转向和多样化研究实践,从理论视野和学术路径两个宏观层面总结了国外藏文传记研究的发展演变和主要特征,对国外藏文传记研究的现状、趋势和存在问题进行了初步的反思和总结。

Tibetan biography is an important genre of traditional Tibetan literature,history and religion,and an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and ancient Chinese documents.In the1960s,with the rise of biographical research,Tibetan biographical study gradually became a subject field of Tibetan studies abroad.Since the 1990s,with the further deepening of research,the multi-disciplinary approaches and innovative achievements of Tibetan biographical study have injected fresh vitality into the development of Tibetan studies.This paper studies the main English works in the study of Tibetan biography in the past 30 years,by tentatively assorting the related literature into four major research topics based on biography type and research content,it introduces the main contents,theoretical methods and research perspectives of the relevant works in detail,analyzes their main discipline framework,propositional concepts and research approaches.This paper summarizes the main characteristics and historical development of Tibetan biographical study at abroad in terms of their theoretical perspective and academic concerns,and it also gives a preliminary reflection and summary of the current state,trend and existing problems of Tibetan biographical study abroad.