《維摩詰經》的梵本及漢譯本的戲劇文學結構

The Sanskrit Text of VimalakĪrtinirdeśa and the Dramatic Literary Structure in its Chinese Translation

Vimalakīrtinirdeśa is an important text in Mahāyāna Buddhism and an outstanding magnum opus in Buddhist Literature. The Sanskrit text of Vimalakīrtinirdeśa was found by Japanese scholars in Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, China, and was published after processing and revising, which provides a distinctly important text basis for the academic world. The Sanskrit text was probably a manuscript from the 10-11th centuries, but the formation of the sūtra was not later than the 2nd century. The Chinese translations of the sūtra are another distinctly important form and its dramatic literary structure is rather complete, which can be regarded as a magnum opus in the early dramatic literature of Mahāyāna Buddhism.