重構十一至十四世紀的西域佛教史 -- 基於俄藏黑水城漢文佛教文書的探討=Reconstructing the History of Buddhism in Central Eurasia (11th-14th Centuries): An Interdisciplinary and Multilingual Approach to Khara Khoto Chinese Buddhist Texts
This paper aims to show how an interdisciplinary and multilingual approach to Khara Khoto Chinese Buddhist texts reveals a great number of religious-historical sources and sheds new light on the history of Buddhism in Central Eurasia from the 11th to 14th centuries. It gives an overview of the main content of Khara Khoto Chinese Buddhist texts and discusses their relation to the Turfan Uigurica preserved today in Berlin, Germany and Khara Khoto Tangut Buddhist texts. This study testifies that Central Eurasia was still playing its traditional role as a melting pot of Eastern and Western religious traditions between the 11th and 14 centuries and that it was neither Chinese nor Indian Buddhism, but Tibetan tantric Buddhism that dominated the religious faith of the various peoples of Central Eurasia during this time period. It emphasizes that a comparative study of Turf an Uigurica with corresponding Tangut, Chinese, Tibetan and Mongolian texts found in the Khara Khoto collection is not only essential for reconst ructing the history of Buddhism in Central Eurasia, but also for ensuring the success of linguistic and philological studies of the Turf an Uigurica and Khara Khoto Tangut Buddhist texts.
