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《华林国际佛学学刊》第三卷‧第一期(2020):144–160; https://dx.doi.org/10.6939/HIJBS.202004_3(1).0007
(本文属于专刊《宗教石刻研究与玄奘研究》)
背景与文本:玄奘和《大唐西域记》的历史化(Context and Text: Historicizing Xuanzang and the Da Tang Xiyu Ji)
伍国(WU Guo)
美国阿勒格尼学院 (Allegheny College)
摘要(Abstract):《大唐西域记》的内容来自于玄奘对世俗事务的长期兴趣。该书的汇编是对唐太宗李世民的帝王命令的回应,而这个命令的主要目标就是为他准备征服和统治的西域搜集实情。该书的体例和重点,通过记载当地物产与风俗,传达出对当地人的道德判断,承袭了中国传统地理书籍、方志和正史中的西部边疆部分。本书的民族志性质,玄奘对世俗事务的关注和对经验研究的兴趣,及其向皇帝提供资讯的目标,都是为实现深入和多方面地理解该书而需要掌握的重要方面。
The content of the Da Tang Xiyu ji, or The Great Tang Records of the Western Regions, drew upon Xuanzang’s long-term interest in secular things and its compilation was a response to the imperial order of Li Shimin, or Tang Taizong, with the main goal of finding facts about the Western Regions, which Li Shimin was planning to conquer and govern. The book’s style and focus inherited traditional Chinese geographical books, local gazetteers and the official history’s section on the western borderlands by recording the regions’ products and customs, and it passes moral judgments on local people. The book’s ethnographical character and Xuanzang’s concern with secular affairs and his interest in empirical studies, as well as its goal of providing information to the emperor, are the important aspects that need to be grasped to achieve an in-depth and multifaceted understanding.
关键词(Keywords):唐太宗(Tang Taizong)、李世民(Li Shimin)、玄奘(Xuanzang)、大唐西域记(Da Tang Xiyu ji [The Great Tang Account of the Western Regions])
关于作者:伍国,1974 年生,1995 年毕业于北京语言大学英语系,2006 年获美国纽约州立大学历史学博士学位。现为美国阿勒格尼学院历史系副教授,中国研究专业主任。已出版英文专著两部,发表英文学术论文, 书评二十余篇,中文各类文字三十余篇。
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