漫谈佛教艺术中的哺乳图--从当代社会关于公共场所哺乳问题的争论谈起

摘要

In recent years, many controversies have taken place on the internet about the legitimacy of breast-feeding in full view of the public.The heart of these controversies can be summarized as follows:what is beautiful and what is reprehensi-ble?In this age of diverse ideologies, why is there so much tolerance about ugly things and yet so little tolerance, or even zero tolerance, for truly beautiful things?Focusing on the raging controversy about breast-feeding in upblic places and mak-ing reference to breast-feeding scene s in the history of Buddhist art and their underlying aestheitc ideas, this paper attempts to reflect on this phenomenon.%近年来，关于妇女在公共场所无遮盖哺乳是否具有正当性的争议，在互联网上可谓此伏彼起。这一争论的实质在于：什么是美的？什么是不美的？在这个思想观念日益多元的时代，为什么人们有时候能够对丑陋的事物表现出极大的宽容，却对某些真正美好的事物如此苛责，甚至是“零容忍”？由此围绕当代社会关于公共场所哺乳问题的争论，结合宗教艺术史上的诸多艺术表现及其背后的审美观念进行反思。