佛钵信仰与传法思想及其图像

佛钵信仰与传法思想,是中古时期印度、中亚、中国重要的文化现象和思想意识,形成两条相互关联的发展轨迹。其一,基于有关佛钵的释迦佛教化事迹,西北印度约2—5世纪上半叶形成以礼拜、供养为特征的佛钵信仰中心地,又直接或间接地影响到中印度、东南印度及西域。中亚4世纪前后佛钵供养与兜率天上弥勒菩萨组合表述传法思想,佛钵已然成为佛法象征。中原6世纪末叶作为潜流存在的佛钵信仰,演化为传法思想发展的依托形式。其二,发端于西北印度的传法思想,与兜率天上弥勒菩萨信仰联系起来。中亚、西域6、7世纪弥勒菩萨信仰与末法及传法图像浑然一体表现,突出了传法的紧要性。中原6世纪末叶佛教图像呈现末法、护法、传法思想集结现象,作为核心的传法思想成为一股强劲的佛教思潮。佛钵信仰与传法思想以兜率天上弥勒菩萨为纽带互为表里、并行发展,直观地反映了人们的信仰热情和密切文化交流的情况,佛教发展的曲折经历亦同时显现。

Practices of the Buddhist bowl and Dharma thought and their related images

Both the practices of Buddhist bowl and Dharma Thought were an import cultural phenomena and ideology for Medieval India,Central Asia and China.The two shared a development that was intertwined throughout history.First,based on the Buddhist Bowl referred to in Sakyamuni Buddha's life stories, worshipping practices were established during the second to early fifth centuries in Northwest India,which become the founding place for Buddha Bowl practices.This eventually,direcdy influenced Central and Southeast In...