玄奘大師早期行曆若干問題考查论述.pdfVIP

玄奘大師早期行曆若干問題考述 25 玄奘大師早期行曆若干問題考述 ∗ 楊維中 摘要： 關於玄奘大師的籍貫，由郡望說是陳留人，由祖籍說是潁川人，由 出生地說是緱氏縣人或偃師縣人，可以並存。在目前文獻中仔細考辨， 以暫定玄奘生於隋仁壽二年（602 年），卒於唐麟德元年（664 年），享 年六十三歲較為妥切。玄奘五歲喪母，而其父在其出家為沙彌前去世的 可能性大些。關於玄奘出家的原因，道宣記載似乎暗示玄奘少年時期生 活頗顯困頓，其兄由此才攜其住於佛寺。不管出於何種情形，十一、二 歲時，玄奘在其二兄長捷法師的帶領下，住於東都洛陽的淨土寺。他跟 隨其兄在淨土寺做了一兩年「行者」。依照享年六十三歲推算，此年即 為隋大業十年（614 年）。 關鍵詞：玄奘、籍貫、生卒年、出家因緣、早期行曆 ∗ 南京大學哲學系教授、博士生導師 玄奘佛學研究 第十九期 2013/3 26 A Textual Research on Several Issues of Master Hsuanchuang’s Practices and Experiences in His Early Years ∗ Yang, Wei-zhong ABSTRACT: Master Hsuanchuang’s native place can be identified as Chenliu for the province, as Yingchuan for his ancestral home, and as Houshi County or Yanshi County for his birth place, all of which are acceptable. Based on remaining texts, his birth time may be more convincingly and temporarily set as the second year of Renshou (602), and death time as the first year of Lindur (664), and correlatively he died when he was 63. His mother died when he was five, and there is a great probability that his father had died before he became a novice monk. The records by Daoxuan seem to imply that Hsuanchuang’s renunciation was because of his poverty, and led by his brother he settled down in a temple of Buddhism. Anyway he followed his second elder brother, Dharma Master Changjear, and stayed in Pure Land Temple in Luoyang the Eastern Capital as a “practitioner” for one or two years. Deduced from his death time and age (63), this ye