佛经斗法故事与古代小说创作

On the Magic - arts fighting of Buddhist Scripture and Creation of Chinese Classical Novels

斗法是佛经的重要内容,其体现在释迦与魔波旬之间、不同教派之间乃至菩萨之间的争竞。这一结构遂为中国本土之小说所采用,却演变为儒释道相互的较比高低。其文化根源则在于现实生活中三教之间的那种水火不容、你死我活的尖锐矛盾。但在宋暨其后,该类作品主题被表现作家主观情感的创作动机所置换,这一本质转变,首先是三教合流思潮在宋元明清的定型致使此类小说寻求新的创作依托,而情本位观念的弥漫则为这一转变奠定了实质的内核。

The Magic - arts fighting is an important content in Buddhist Scripture. It includes the struggles for powers between Sakyamuni and the Prince of the Devils Boxun, between different religion sects, and between Buddha's. The structure of the struggles is adopted by Chinese classical novels with its content changed into fighting in the Confucianism, the Buddhism and the Taoism. The reason is that there are incisive contradictions in the three religions. But the subject of these novels is replaced by feeling standard after Song Dynasty. The first reason of the change is that three religions mix together in Song ,Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasties. The second is that writers accept the feeling standard.