東アジア仏教の諸問題：聖厳博士古稀記念論集= An Anthology of East Asian BUddhism:A Commemorative Volume in Honor of Ven.Sheng-yen on His 70th Birthday
出版日期
2001.03.20
頁次
151-184, 209
出版者
山喜房佛書林=Sankibo busshorin佛書林=Sankibo-Busshorin
出版地
東京, 日本 [Tokyo, Japan]
資料類型
專題研究論文=Research Paper
使用語言
日文=Japanese
附註項
English Abstract：p. 209.
摘要
English Abstract Since Buddhism was introduced to China, the people there who had cultivated such high and native moral cultures as Confucianism and Taoism，have accepted the foreign Buddhist culture with a very strong individuality and in a subtle，diversified way. It is a foregone conclusion that the copying of part of the sacred books of Buddhism，that is, a practice resulting from faith in Buddhism has brought about a kind of art from tied to stone and rock abundantly available in China. Now let me call a stone with the Buddha's words inscribed on it as "inscribed stone sutra".
However，so far，a study of Buddhism in China has focused primarily on sutras transcribed on paper，or on the images of the Buddha carved on wood or stone，great interest having been centered solely on artistic viewpoints.
It is time for us to recognize that these very stone sutras are fist-rate materials for testifying specific periods and cultures, and that will complement the part lacking in literature，and they will be positively high-quality materials for corroborative evidence.
In Beginning of inscribed stone sutras in China as "Stupa of Stone in the Bei Liang Period"，I have studied，under a tangible theme，what historical meaning lies in the faith in Buddhism as shown in the stone sutras, when they are seen against the historical background of their formation in the history of the Northern Dynasty's Buddhism.
