吐蕃钵阐布考

一、钵阐布起源及其音义佛教传入藏区之前,藏区的原始宗教是苯教(bon)。7世纪中叶,佛教正式传入吐蕃,松赞干布(弃宗弄赞,617—650)命能臣图密桑布札创制藏文。为加快佛教的传播,松赞干布下令     

《佛教东传与中国佛教艺术》一书出版

浙江人民出版社最近推出吴先生所著《佛教东传与中国佛教艺术)一书,全书以近30万字和30多帧图版的篇幅,紧紧扣住“佛教艺术”这一主题,遵循佛教产生、演变、东传以及最终与中国文化相融合的主线展开论述,并阐介了对中国产生影响的印度佛教思想和艺术流派的形成、中国佛教及佛教艺术与印度及佛教传播线上其他外来文化的联系.全书分为七章,第一章重点论述佛教在印度产生的     

略论洛阳出土佛教造像座的装饰题材

1979年洛阳出土了一件佛教造像座,其四侧线刻有精美的佛教人物,原简报认为他们的身份是菩萨和供养人等。经过笔者仔细分析,认为这件造像座上的装饰题材是地神与香炉、四天王奉钵、十大神王等。     

西藏芒康县查果西沟B点、崩隆达、纳日贡吐蕃摩崖造像调查简报

在2021年开展的全国石窟寺（石刻）专项调查工作中,西藏自治区文物保护研究所、芒康县文化局以及昌都市文物保护研究所组成的调查小组对地处西藏东部的芒康县境内的3处摩崖造像进行了调查与记录。3处摩崖造像分别位于芒康县纳西乡觉龙村、帮达乡然堆村境内,共发现11尊造像,通过比较造像特征,确认其中10尊佛教造像具有显著的吐蕃佛教造像风格。这些造像既有新的艺术表现形式,也有罕见的内容题材,它们的发现为进一步研究吐蕃佛教造像的空间分布、艺术传承及思想传播等提供了重要资料,又推动了唐代汉藏文化交流和唐蕃古道的研究,具有重要的学术价值。     

藏东石刻

昌都地区是西藏吐蕃时期石刻分布最多的地区。探寻这些石刻,似乎是对“唐蕃古道”沿途节点的考证,千年的时光早已让古道的样子模糊,但会说话的石头还在传递着吐蕃时期藏东艺术的余温。它们是汉、藏．印等艺术交流的典范,也是佛教在藏东地区弘传的一个辉煌的见证。     

龟兹石窟新考证的佛陀重大教化事迹

龟兹石窟新考证出了"频婆娑罗王迎佛"、"伊罗钵多罗龙王礼佛"、"佛履三道宝阶降还"等佛陀重大教化事迹,丰富了龟兹石窟佛陀教化事迹的内容,对龟兹佛教思想理念的认识又深入了一步:一、对龟兹佛教说一切有部"佛陀观"认识的深化;二、对说一切有部"过去佛"思想的深刻理解;三、龟兹石窟佛陀事迹的丰富多彩,是部派佛教经量部"譬喻师"影响的结果;四、新考证的佛陀重大教化事迹,是对龟兹佛教与石窟艺术运用"毗昙学"考察与解读所取得的初步成果。     

六世班禅与达天通理会晤新考——以藏文版《六世班禅传》与《三世章嘉传》为中心

六世班禅在京朝觐期间与汉传佛教贤首宗代表人物达天通理进行了会晤,此为清代藏传佛教与汉传佛教交流史上的标志性事件。作者以藏文版《六世班禅传》与《三世章嘉传》为中心,结合新发现的汉文史料考证认为,二者会晤缘起于六世班禅为深入了解汉传佛教而临时起意,时间是乾隆四十五年(1780)九月初六日,地点是觉生寺,内容为二者在章嘉国师翻译辅助下就佛事科仪等进行的简单交流,直接成果为九月二十七日达天通理获赐"阐教禅师"尊号。     

桂平西山洗石庵

桂平西山洗石庵位于广西壮族自治区的东南部,黔、郁、浔江三江交汇处的桂平市的西山风景名胜区内,是国务院确定的中国佛教重点寺院。西山是华南佛教名山,西山的佛教自唐代王山人归隐布山礼至今,一千多年来,素有高僧驻锡,是华南佛教活动重要场所。原中国佛教协会副会长巨赞法师,香港佛教协会会长觉光法师都曾在此地常驻清修。     

论汉藏人文地理分界线——以河洮岷地区为中心的分析

历史时期汉藏人文地理分界线在青藏高原东北缘曾有三次较大的变动。文章论述了三次汉藏人文地理分界线的形成、摆动与稳定及其环境意义。认为,雪山(祁连山)—黄河分界线是唐蕃依据地理条件最有利原则下的一种势力范围划分;六盘山—陇山分界线是地理条件决定下的唐蕃分界线;唐蕃以后汉藏人文地理分界线的缓慢西移并最终稳定在河洮岷一线,汉藏民族的经济理性行为是其重要的影响因素。     

论点摘编

以友好为主流的唐蕃关系恰白·次旦平措所著和何宗英所译的关于唐蕃关系的论文发表在《中国藏学》2008年第一期。唐蕃关系的历史进程中,有时发生战争,又通婚交好,那是民族之间最初发展关系阶段经常发生的。大量的藏汉文典籍、碑铭等文献资     

Advances in Morphometrics in Archaeobotany

ABSTRACT

Morphometric analysis offers an alternative or augmentation to traditional archaeobotanical methods to address differences within and between plant species and their remains, refining and enhancing taxonomic resolution. Morphometrics, the measurement of size and shape, and the multivariate statistical analysis of generated quantitative variables, have long played a major role in biological research, including plant taxonomy and systematics, although its application in archaeobotany is relatively recent. Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing interest in the use of morphometrics for analysing a varied range of archaeological plant materials (mainly seeds, pollen, phytoliths, and starch grains). In particular, morphometrics have contributed to the study of the domestication and spread of many cereals world-wide, as well as that of other taxa including legumes, underground storage organs (USO), and fruits (such as olives, grapes, and dates). This paper reviews current methodologies, recent applications, and advances in the use of morphometrics in archaeobotanical research, discusses its role in exploring major research questions, and suggests possible future directions for its use.     

杏开二月

已经是二月仲春了,大地柔软,天气慢慢热起来了。一场习习的春雨,浇得人心头酥酥的。我第一次注意到,家门前的杏树开了。枝干上,星星点点,挑着几朵白,轻盈得很,把薄薄的心打开,驻足美的枝头,观赏人间烟火。背后是灰灰的庭院,低矮的     

Geography in Higher Education in Australia

Within the last 30 years, geographical information systems (GIS) have been used increasingly in the training of geographers. On the basis of the philosophy of technology and instrumental genesis, we sketch how the use of instruments interacts with learning processes and outline how this can be studied. We empirically analyse students' learning processes and the influences of teaching practice in an introductory course in GIS. We show that students have different strategies for creating their personal instrument for spatial thinking and how teaching interacts with the students' learning processes. Finally, we discuss how GIS may gradually alter future professional development of geographers.     

America in Speech and in Deed

The author's primary aim in what follows is to fully articulate Chantal Delsol's critique of late modern universalism as an attempt to depoliticize the individual for the sake of replacing politics with morality. The result of this depoliticization is a quasi-pantheistic cosmopolitanism that not only effectively denies the significance of individuality, despite rhetorically lionizing it, but also undercuts the freedom of individual conscience that makes moral choice possible. Genuine political prudence and moral judgment are subsequently replaced by the rigid exactitude of a technocratic analysis that reintroduces the "clandestine ideology" it was, despite protestations to the contrary, intended to eliminate. The unhappy paradox produced by the attempt to replace the necessary limitations of political judgment with the universality of a priori moral decree is that a new set of culturally and historically idiosyncratic political attachments are surreptitiously introduced beyond the pale of reasonable debate and disagreement. Delsol's measured response is not a precipitous rejection of universalism as such but a rehabilitation of it that recaptures the Christian moral realism at its core.     

Tibetan-Inhabited Area in Deqen in Development

Deqen, honored as “Shangri La”,is located in the area where three rivers meet to form one in the Henduan Mountains straddling the borders of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. The Deqen Tibetan Ethnic Group Autonomous Prefecture, founded in September 1957, is the only Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Yunnan Province but one of 10 in the