Transformations of Identity and the Buddha’s Infancy Narratives at Kanaganahalli
Transformations of Identity and the Buddha’s Infancy Narratives at Kanaganahalli
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卡纳加纳哈利的身份转变和佛陀的婴儿期叙事
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2017
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S. R. Quintanilla
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S. R. Quintanilla
本文提出了一个年表的雕塑装饰，在最近出土的佛教寺院在卡纳加纳哈利在印度西南部的卡纳塔克邦。包括解释说明题字作为后来的补充，适用于第二世纪行政长官，以改变和更新的意义，旧的，预先存在的图像从第一世纪公元前。通过添加新的描述性铭文来改变视觉图像的含义，表明卡纳加纳哈利佛教界在大约150年的时间里兴趣和优先事项的转变。释迦牟尼佛一生的叙事情节，其中他的母亲将他作为新生儿介绍给树神神社的神灵，是这种现象的一个重要例子。虽然雕刻的图像描绘了一棵树的精神崇拜婴儿，但标题铭文将这一场景确定为释迦牟尼向他父亲的祖先氏族的神的介绍，在文本来源中描述为由男子在一个结构寺庙中表演。卡纳加纳哈里的这幅和其他图像的意义转变表明，佛教叙事来源和重点在北方地区占主导地位，在世纪在南方变得更加突出。旧形象的新身份削弱了本地妇女仪式的作用，而这些仪式在卡纳塔克邦和安得拉邦的南部地区很重要，当地人口的社会结构是母系社会。
This essay proposes a chronology of sculptural embellishment at the recently excavated Buddhist stūpa at Kanaganahalli in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India. Included is the interpretation of caption inscriptions as later additions, applied during the second century ce in order to alter and update the meaning of older, preexisting imagery from the first century bce. Transforming the meaning of visual images by the addition of new descriptive inscriptions indicates a shift in interests and priorities in the Buddhist community at Kanaganahalli over the span of about 150 years.The narrative episode from the life of the Buddha Śākyamuni in which his mother presents him as a newborn to the deity of a tree-shrine is featured as a key example of this phenomenon. While the sculpted image depicts the spirit of a tree venerating the infant, the caption inscription identifies the scene as the presentation of Śākyamuni to the deity of his father’s ancestral clan, described in textual sources as performed by men at a structural temple. The shift in meaning of this and other images at Kanaganahalli indicate that Buddhist narrative sources and emphases from predominantly patriarchal northern regions rose to greater prominence in the south during the second century ce. The new identities of older imagery diminish the role of vernacular women’s rites, which were important in the southern regions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, where the social structure of local populations was matriarchal.