Tones from the Stones

佛教源於五竺，但印度故尚口耳相傳，加之歷史概念不彰，故對佛教關鍵人物和事件皆難索解。面對此一挑戰，碑刻銘文和其他考古資料被證明具有不可替代之價值。在印度次大陸發現的銘文中，有許多與佛教有關，對它們的研究為研究印度和南亞佛教的歷史、哲學、社會和其他各方面提供了基礎。

基於佛教金石學的重要性，2019 年8月20日至21日，我們在牛津大學聖安妮學院（St Anne’s College）舉辦了“中亞和東亞地區的佛教金石雕造、保存和研讀”研討會，以此來推動佛教石刻碑銘領域之中的學術研究。在本次研討會上，來自歐美東亞地區的22 位與會專家學者在佛教文獻、考古、歷史與社會學等領域之中展開了深入的交流，討論主題共分為“石刻造像”、“石刻地域所見佛教”、“佛教墓誌銘”、“佛教石經”、“佛教石刻材料所見禪宗與密宗”、以及“佛教石刻所見的士大夫、皇族婦女、地方網絡與神聖敘述”等六個部會單元。我們挑選其中12篇論文加以編輯整理，出版為此書。

Preface

Foreword

1.  Sacred Network Reflected on Stone

1.1.  Imprinting the Living Rock with Buddhist Texts: On the Creation of a Regional Sacred Geography in Shandong in the Second Half of the Sixth Century
Claudia Wenzel

1.2.  A Study on the Images of Treasure Birds as Shown in the Transformation Tableaux of Western Pure Land Sūtras in Sichuan from the Tang and Five Dynasties
Mingli Sun 孫明利

1.3.  The ‘Daan Ta Beiming’ 大安塔碑銘 [Daan Pagoda Stele]: Religious and Sociopolitical Networks Woven around the Construction of a Song-dynasty Buddhist Pagoda
Guodong Feng 馮國棟

2.  Paper and Stone: Buddhist Manuscript and Epigraphical Culture

2.1.  The Question of the Dating of Bingling Temple’s Cave 169, Niche 6 and its Connection to the Time of the Composition and Dissemination of Several Buddhist Scriptures
Wei Zheng 韋正

2.2.  On the Influence of the Longkan Shoujian 龍龕手鑒 as a Glossary on Dhāraṇī Carved in Stone (and on Metal Sheets) in the North Pagoda at Chaoyang and in Manuscripts from 12th Century Japan
George A. Keyworth

2.3.  Against Epigraphy: Once More a Visit to Zen and History
T. H. Barrett

3.  Sacred and Secular Seen through Stone

3.1.  ‘A Weeping King’: Glimpses into the Religious and Political Life of a Northern Liang Ruler, as Shed by his Stone-Buddha ProjectTong Ling 童嶺

3.2.  A Virtuoso Nun in the North: Situating the Earliest-Known Dated Biography of a Buddhist Nun in East AsiaStephanie Balkwill

Author Biographies