早期藏传佛教艺术中的救度主题（一）

——八菩萨再考

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中图分类号：K879.21：K879.29 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1000-4106（2025）03-0064-16

The Theme of Salvation in Early Tibetan Buddhist Art （I）

一AReexamination of the Eight Bodhisattvas

LIAO Yang （Institute ofEthnology and Anthropology，Chinese Academy of Social Science，Beijing ）

Abstract：Manyoftheextantimagesandhistoricalrecords from the Tibetanperiodhighlighttheimportanceofthethemeof theOneBuddhaandEightBodhisattasintheartoftheDunhuangregion.Cave25attheYulinGrotoeswasbuiltandpainted duringthe TibetanoccupationofDunhuangandincludes thisverythemeonthebackwallaswellasclearlywrittenname inscriptios，which alsoproveuseful forunderstanding similarrock carvings in eastern Tibet.Advancing researchonrock inscriptionsatthesamesitealsoprovidesanewperspectiveforre-examining themurals inCave25.Afterconductingastudyon thereligious contextofthesecases，thispaperhasconcludedthat theimagesoftheEightBodhisatvasshouldnotbeinterpreted simplybyquoting Astamandalaka-sutra; rather，itsreligiousimplicationsare morecloselyasociatedwithboth Huayan华严and Western PureLandbeliefs，as expounded inBhadracarypranidana.Thisscriptural backgroundoughttobetakenintoacount whenseekingtounderstand the religiousritualsand functionsoftheartwork.

Keywords：EightBodhisattvas;Trisong Detsen;Bhadracaryapranidhana; Huayan faith; WesternPure Land faith

（Translated by WANG Pingxian）

近年来，吐蕃时期汉藏交界地带的一佛八菩萨图像一直得到高度重视，相关研究成果非常丰厚，敦煌学、藏学、考古学、美术史等领域的中外专家学者多有关注。（剩余18163字）