僧伽變相的內容、演變及形成：以安岳、簡陽兩鋪摩崖造像為中心=On the Content, Evolution, and Formation of Samgha Illustration: Focusing on the Two Cliff Engravings at Anyue and Jianyang
Two depictions of Samgha were recently discovered, one in the Thousand Buddha Peaks at Anyue and the other in the Chaoyang Temple at Jianyang, the main statues in the former are of Samgha, Baozhi and Wanhui, while in the latter the two disciples of Samgha are Mucha and Huiyan. The relics at Thousand Buddha Peaks, excavated between the Yuanhe and Changqing eras, have 22 groups depicting Samgha’s story, 12 of which can be interpreted. Those from Chaoyang Temple, excavated in the 9 th century, have 5 groups, of which3 can be interpreted. These two illustrations share the same draft with others of the same theme—depictions of Samgha and his disciples— found in both the Xichan Temple and Thousand Buddha Peaks; all of these artworks belong to the greater narrative of Samgha’ s thirty-two miraculous deeds. In the Five Dynasties and Early Songdynasty, the thirty-two miracles were changed to thirty-six, as images from the Song dynasty excavated in the east of Chengdu have shown. The images of Sangha can be divided into four categories, and all of them first appeared in Chang’an in the 8th century.
