By the Buddhist Scriptures of Dunhuang Mss. to Study the Origin and Spread of Folk Buddhist Scriptures among the People in the Tang Dynasty

In the Tang dynasty, folk Buddhist activities are exceedingly flourishing, which inevitably caused that many Buddhist scriptures were circulated and employed on a large scale. On the basis of Buddhist scriptures of Dunhuang Mss. in the Tang Dynasty and others materials such as literary sketches, the author makes some classifications and analyses on the origin and spread of the Buddhist scriptures which had been used among the people in the Tang Dynasty. 