A Comprehensive Study of the Buddhist Stone Sutra Projects in He-bei, China-with a Special Focus on the Fan-shan Yun-ju Tenple Stone Sutras-

梵山云居寺的大量石经是本研究的主要对象，这些石经是从隋末开始的一千多年来不断雕刻的。石经既记录了佛经，也记录了产生它们的时代的生活。本研究从不同的角度阐述了寺庙历史和佛经雕刻项目的内容和意义。项目的第一年主要是编写联合报告，并在项目成员中建立共识。在第二年，每个成员选择一个主题，并开始调查个别项目。与此同时，还定期发布相关研究公报。在第三年，也就是最后一年，会员们完成了个人研究，题目是《中国佛教石经研究》。以矾山云居寺石经为中心。本书分三章，分别论述了隋唐时期的刻经工程和寺庙的历史，刻经工程的佛教后期思想渊源，辽代寺庙刻经工程的社会政治背景，辽代寺庙刻经工程的历史背景。山西应县木塔出土的石经与佛经的关系、方山石经与《高丽大藏经》的关系、方山石经与《高丽大藏经》的关系、方山石经与《高丽大藏经》的关系等问题。唐宋四川石经活动与云居石经的间接关系，方山大直独论石经与敦煌石经的关系，以及新近发现的梵山辽金石经中的华严经的意义。

The vast store of stone sutras at the Fan-shan Yun-ju Temple, carved continuously over a period of one thousand years beginning in the late-Sui, are the chief object of this study. The stone sutras offer a record of both the Buddhist scriptures and the life of the times that produced them. The present study elucidates the content and significance of the temple's history and the sutra carving project from a variety of viewpoints.The first year of the project was primarily devoted to preparing a joint report and developing a consensus among the project members. In the second year, each member selected a theme and began investigation of individual projects. Meanwhile, related research bulletins were regularly issued. In the third and last year, members compteted individual research, which appears as "A Study of Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Focusing on the Stone Sutras of the Fan-shan Yun-ju Temple". Included in this volume are chapters on the history of the sutra-carving project and the temple during the Sui-Tang period ; on the origin of the conceptof the later days of Buddhism, which motivated the sutra carving project ; on the social and political background of the temple's sutra-carving project in the Liao period ; on the relationship between the stone sutras and the scriptures recovered from the Wooden Pagoda inYingxian, Shanxi ; on the relationship between the Fang-shan stone sutras and the Koryo Tripitaka ; on the indirect relationship between the stone-sutra activities in Sichuan duringthe Tang-Sung period and the Yun-ju stone sutras ; on the relationship between the Fang-shan stone-srtra text of the Dazhidulun and that at Dunhuang ; and on the significance of the recently discovered Hua-yan scriptures among the Liao-Jin era stone sutras at Fan-shan.