敦煌本《老子化胡经》的重现与早期东西方汉学交流

Spread of the Dunhuang Laozi Huahu Jing and Early East-West Sinological Communication

20世纪初,伴随着敦煌藏经洞的发现,佚失600余年的道书《老子化胡经》重现世间。其部分经卷的早期流布,呈现出两条线索:一条是由法国学者伯希和发现,然后提供给罗振玉等中国学者,并经中国学者流传到日本;另一条则是日本学者狩野直喜在欧洲考察期间,于大英博物馆中抄录得到,并经过王国维等人向中国学术界刊布。东西方学者之间的学术交往,在《老子化胡经》的发现与早期流传过程中起到了重要的推动作用。

At the beginning of the 20th century,with the discovery of the Dunhuang Sutra Cave,the Taoist scripture Laozi Huahu Jing,which had been lost for more than 600 years,was rediscovered.The early circulation of some of its scrolls happened in two ways:some were discovered by the French Sinologist Paul Pelliot and then offered to Luo Zhenyu and other Chinese scholars,through whom they were circulated to Japan;some were copied from the British Museum by the Japanese scholar Kano Naoki during his study tour in Europe,and published for the Chinese academic community by Wang Guowei and others.The academic exchanges between Eastern and Western scholars played an important role in the discovery and early dissemination of Laozi Huahu Jing.