汉画像石葬俗中早期佛教生态美学的当代价值

尽管从汉代墓葬中出土的画像石不是纯粹的佛教绘画,但它蕴涵有丰富的早期佛教存在论生态审美观念。这种审美观念的产生,与当时特殊的文化转型背景有着密切关系。通过汉画像石直观生动的表现,我们在领略早期佛教无情有性、众生平等这一心灵金弦的氤氲热气之外,也可以感受生态灾难警示、命运终极关怀这个醒世木铎的悲壮与厚重。这些作为两千年前墓葬依附物而保留下来的文化遗迹,对于当前克服日益严重的生态危机具有重要的借鉴价值。

Contemporary Significance of the Eco- Aesthetics of Early Buddhism Revealed in the Buried Inscribed Stones of the Han Dynasty

Though the inscribed stones unearthed from the tombs of the Han Dynasty are not pure Buddhist paintings, they contain rich eco-aesthetic ideas of the early Buddhist existentialism. The emergence of such aesthetic ideas is closely related to the specific background of cultural transformation. Through a study of the vivid inscribed stones, we can get to know not only the cold but humanistic traits of early Buddhism and the principle of equality for all but also the serious warning of eco-calamity and the ultimate concern for fate. These burial stone articles with a history of two thousand years are precious cultural relics which have much reference significance to solving the worsening eco-crises today.