佛教建筑是中国古代建筑中十分重要的一种类型。晋东南地区的佛教建筑（佛寺、佛塔、石窟），经历了从北魏到明清的漫长历程，与晋东南地区独特的自然地理环境、政区历史以及地方文化融合在一起，形成了颇具地域特征的佛教建筑形制和形态，是佛教建筑史中不应忽视的一部分。.近三十年围绕晋东南地区古建筑的研究，集中于早期遗构的木构特征和年代鉴定等方面，尚且缺乏对晋东南地区佛教建筑地域性发展脉络的梳理，缺乏对佛教建筑成片系统的比较，缺乏对佛教建筑形制（包括分布选址、空间格局、殿宇配置、单体造型、纹样、装修装饰等）地域性特征的深入研究。因此，本课题首次围绕晋东南佛教建筑的地域性，力图在同时期汉地佛教建筑发展的大背景下，展开对其地域性的历史发展脉络、建筑特征及其地域性内在成因的研究，以期系统解读晋东南佛教建筑的地域性，填补佛教建筑地域性研究的不足，完善晋东南佛教建筑的基础研究，同时为晋东南佛教建筑的整体保护提供建议。

Having experienced a long history, from the Northern Wei Dynasty to Ming and Qing Dynasty, Buddhist architecture, including temples, towers and grottoes, combined with the unique geographical environment, political history and local culture in Southeast of Shanxi Province, has formed a typical regional character of architecture, which plays an important part in the development of Chinese Buddhist architectural history....During the past 30 years, researches about the ancient architecture in Southeast of Shanxi Province mainly focused on aspects, such as wood characteristics and age identification of the early inherited tectonics, there is a vacancy in the overall summary about the Buddhist architectural history in Shanxi Province, a comparison and analysis on the Buddhist archetype, and even an intensive study, including the layout and addressing, spatial pattern, temple configuration, elemental building style, and regional characters. Considering of this, our project tries to study the regional history development, regional architecture characters of Buddhist architecture in Shanxi Province, aiming at revealing the territoriality of Buddhist architecture, filling the vacancy and enriching the study of Buddhist architectural territoriality, enrich the base research of Buddhist architecture in Shanxi Province, meanwhile, offering some suggestions on the conservation of the whole Buddhist architecture.