《摩尼光佛》的学术价值
文章摘要:《摩尼光佛》具有非常重要的学术价值。它印证了学者对敦煌汉文摩尼教文献的校正,校勘《下部赞》的文字,解决了摩尼教的传入路径、消亡时间、“一者明尊”标点等的争端,补充了敦煌和其他汉文史料中摩尼降生的资料,澄清了明教文佛、大明与明教的关系。“贞明”的概念提示我们思考摩尼教研究中前所未有的新命题。
Abstract:Mani the Buddha of Lighthas important academic value as follows:it can help us to corroborate scholars’ corrections on Manichaeism Chinese literature in Dunhuang,to collate characters of The Chinese Hymnscroll,to solve disputes such as the Manichaean afferent pathway and the Manichaean extinction time and the punctuations in “Firstly:Light-Venerableness”,to supplement the material of Mani' s birth from Dunhuang and of other Ch... 展开