图画崇拜与画中人母题的佛经渊源及仙话意蕴

绘画似真人,幻变为真人,表达了男子对女性的强烈追求;人仙相恋往往也以画图为媒介,为"道具";小说中发展为画像成真人的幻术;图画还往往构成了仙道人物同凡间俗人的交往方式,在具体文本表现中,成为仙道幻术及其气息的一个来源和证据。画师竞技,很早就是中古汉译佛经一个饶有兴味的故事母题;佛经写画上美女过于逼真,而引起男性相思者追慕,也启发了中国文学的绘画成真叙事。佛经故事进入中土也经过了西域诸国绘画艺术的熏陶,其对于绘画成真母题构成了重要的中介。有关佛教徒在华夏中原活动的载录中,也不难找到画图成真的蛛丝马迹。

The Female Immortals and Their Buddhism Origins in Chinese Paintings

Chinese paintings were an intermediary for a human being falling in love an immortal,a way for a female immortal to contact with a worldly male,and an original of fairyland and magic in some fictions' texts.It has been an interesting story topic in Buddhism classics during the middle-ancient period that the painters made competitions.Moreover,it enlightened the narrative structure that the figure in paintings became a real person in the world because the lifelike beauty in Buddhism paintings attracted the female' seeking.There are some traces of the figure in painting becoming a real person in some records of Buddhists in the Central Areas.