佛经传译与散文文体的得名——以词源学为中心的考察

The Translation of Buddhist Literature and the Emergence of the Chinese term“”(prose)

本文从词源学的角度入手 ,考察了作为文体名称之一的散文的来历。它最早应用于唐代的佛经翻译中 ,指的是相对于偈颂而言的一种佛经文体。这种文体与中土的散文有相通之处 。

This paper has made a textual research on the origin of the C hinese te rm “” in light of etymology, which shows that the word “” was firstl y us ed in the Buddhist translation in the Tang Dynasty. As a literary form, Chinese “” is equivalent to Buddhist term Sūtra, which is usually the opposite of Gāthā and Geya in the Buddhist scriptures.