广元皇泽寺写心经洞与武则天关联考析

On the Relationship between the Heart Sutra Cave of Huangze Temple in Guangyuan and Empress Wu Zetian

广元市皇泽寺写心经洞开凿于唐初,现存有唐碑两通,其中“造释迦像残碑”因文字缺失太多,已难以考证其具体内容;另一通《再修西龛佛阁记》文字也大半缺失,但仍可考证其碑主和主要内容.跟据《再修西龛佛阁记》所存文字,结合新出唐代史料《帝王目录》和地方史志,可以确定其碑主应为利州刺史崔朴,碑文中记载武士彟夫人杨氏于贞观二年(628)生育武则天于利州,写心经洞二窟与武则天有密切关联.

The Heart Sutra Writing Caves at Huangze Temple in Guangyuan City was excavated in the early Tang Dynasty.There are two Tang steles now.Among them,the“Shakyamuni Statue Remnant Stele”has lacked too many characters,and it is difficult to verify its specific content.The text of another stele,“Record of Repairing the Western Niche Buddha Pavilion”,is also mostly missing,but the main content and the monument maker can still be verified.According to the text stored in the“Record of Repairing the Western Niche Buddha Pavilion”,combined with the newly released Tang Dynasty historical materials“Catalogue of Emperors”and local historical records,it can be determined that the monument maker should be Cui Pu,the governor of Lizhou.The inscription records that Ms.Yang,the wife of the former governor Wu Shiyue,gave birth to Empress Wu Zetian in Lizhou in the second year of the Zhenguan reign(AC 628),and there is a close relationship between Wu Zetian and the Heart Sutra Writing Cave.