龙门石窟姚尊造像考略

A Brief Study On YAO Zuns Contribution To opening The Buddhist Temple-Cave At The Longmen Grottoes

姚尊曾任青州刺史,并在龙门石窟建窟(第661窟)。通过对姚尊事迹的考察和造像题记中相关人物的考察,显示姚秦后裔在北魏时期仍然继续着祖上崇佛的习惯,题记可弥补正史之阙。姚尊造像还有助于进一步了解龙门石窟北魏正光年间造像风格。

As we all known from historic records, Yao Zun once was a formerly Qinzhou district magistrate and was the main patron who had supported the opening Cave 661 in the Longmen Grottoes. By a careful study of his life story and comprehensive survey of the relative people that were mentioned a-bout in the inscription found in Cave 661, this article is reviewing the important fact that not only related fo Yao Zun himself but his offspring of next generations who were also devoted Buddhist as a family traditional belief during the Northern Wei Dynasty. The inscriptional records has filled in on the authentic historic record blank. Andforthemore, the images in Yao Zun's creation cave offers a great help to us to study the art style of sculptures in the Longmen Grottoes during the reign period of Zhengguang(520-524) of the Northern Wei Dynasty.