從佛教水陸法會儀文探討南北水陸 —召請下堂的異同—=A Study of Investigating South and North Regions for Buddhist Shui-lu Ceremony’s Ritual Rules ―Similarities and Differences of Calling for Participation
The study intends to analyze the similarities and differences of Buddhist Shui-lu Ceremony between south and north regions by their ritual rules. Tiandi Mingyang Shuilu Yiwen, which was lost for five or six hundred years, is the standard ritual rules of "North Shui-lu". It was handed down from the Northern Song Dynasty and became the mainstream of Shui-lu Ceremony until early Qing Dynasty. Later, it was lost because it was not collected in Tripitaka. The ritual rules had also been prevalent in Korea during the Joseon Dynasty and remained twenty-three versions with different contents. The others were called Dharma Realm Shengfan Shui-lu Ceremony Standard Ritual Rules. The so called "South Shui-lu", including one version prevalent collected in Tripitaka in China and eight versions of Sooryuk Moocha Pyungdeung Jaeui Chwalyo prevalent in Korea Joseon Dynasty. All thirty-one versions prevalent in Korea were originated in China, but lost for hundreds of years in China. Therefore, they mean significant in Buddhism history.
