摘要
文章全面检索、浏览敦煌莫高窟遗存的壁画、彩塑和纸帛画等艺术作品,筛选出读书图。这些图像生动地描绘与读书有关的听法、诵经、传法、度亡等佛教活动,艺术地呈现了中古时期人们的读书学习生活。这些读书图中呈现的读物,多是写在纸帛等软载体上的经卷,基本取代了汉代画像石中的简牍,反映了书籍的形制演变、代际更替。敦煌莫高窟艺术作品中缤纷多样的读书图虽然具有浓郁的佛教色彩,但折射了中古时期读书和教育活动的普及,见证了当时西北地区崇学尚书的风气,是了解这个时期图书史、阅读史和文化史的重要途径。
Among the large number of murals,painted sculptures,silk paintings and other works of art left in the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang,one can find some pictures on reading,which vividly depict Buddhist activities related to reading,such as listening to the Dharma,reciting sutras,preaching the Dharma and praying for the deceased,and artistically represent the reading and learning of people in the Middle Ages.The reading materials depicted in these images,mostly sutra scrolls written on paper,silk and other soft materials that essentially replace the bamboo and wooden slips in Han stone portraits,reflect the generational change in the form of books.The images of reading from the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes,although clearly specific to Buddhism,demonstrate the popularity of reading and educational activities in the Middle Ages,and testify to the public reverence for knowledge and books in the Northwest region,providing an important way of understanding the history of books,reading and culture in this period.
出处
《图书馆论坛》
北大核心
2025年第4期24-48,148,共26页
Library Tribune
基金
国家社科基金一般项目“中国古代读书图研究”(项目编号:17BTQ002)研究成果。
关键词
敦煌
莫高窟
绘画
读书图
佛教传播
中古教育
图书史
阅读史
文化史
Dunhuang
Mogao Grottoes
painting
reading pictures
spread of Buddhism
medieval education
history of books
reading history
cultural history
作者简介
王波,博士,研究馆员,北京大学图书馆古籍资源服务中心主任,wb@pku.edu.cn。
