图木舒克佛教故事图考

疏勒国和于阗、龟兹一样,当年为西域佛教大国,但是目前学界对疏勒佛教考古的研究却比较薄弱.20世纪初,法国学者伯希和在新疆图木舒克脱库孜萨来佛寺遗址发现几幅佛教故事图,90年代,该寺院遗址又出土了一件佛教故事图,这为研究佛教故事图在丝绸之路的流行提供了重要材料。本文将讨论这些佛教故事图的艺术风格和宗教内涵,探讨疏勒佛教性质.

A Study on the Images Depicting Buddhist Stories Discovered in Tumshuq

Shule was a Buddhist kingdom in Serindia as famous as Yutian and Qiuci,but very little re- search has been made on the Buddhist Archaeology there yet.At the beginning of the 20th century,the French scholar P.Pelliot discovered several pieces of images depicting Buddhist stories in Toqqouz-sarai,a Buddhist monastery site in Tumshuq,Xinjiang;and in the 1990s,another piece was unearthed there.These images are most informative to the study on the spread of the Buddhist stories along the Silk Road.The present article pre- sents a discussion on the style and the religionary meaning of them,and to a greater extent,attempts to reveal the character of the Buddhism in Shule.