考察赞宁的《宋高僧传》,惠洪的《林间录》等佛教史书中对禅宗五祖弘忍身世的不同叙述方式,可以发现佛教史书叙事文学的本质属性。从叙事学角度看,惠洪的一些著作是佛教史书从“实录”到“虚构”的跨越,这一尝试在佛教传说的接受史来看,其叙事策略相当成功。同时,从叙事学角度切入对佛教史书中存在的大量灵异故事也可作出新的阐释和评价。 The main narrative literature of the history books of Buddhism can be found by examining different narrative styles of Zen Buddhism in the history book of Buddhism, such as The Biography of Song Monks by Sung Sin and Hui Hong’s Lin Jian Lu. From the perspective of narratology, some of Hui Hong’s works are the leaps in history of Buddhist books from “Record ” to “Fiction ”. This attempt was quite successful in the acceptance history of Buddhist legends. At the same time, it is also possible to make new explanations and comments on the large number of supernatural stories existing in Buddhist history books from the perspective of narratology.