The Buddhist Temple and the Transmission of Novels in the Tang Dynasty

Buddhist temples were main places where the novels were transmitted widely in the Tang Dynasty. Inthe Tang Dynasty's Buddhist temples, a plenty of novels were transmitted by word of mouth, such as the monk's narra-tion, the literary men's chat, or the artistes' performance of shuo - huaand zhuan - bian. And then, The Buddhistmonk in Buddhist temples made novel copies by writing or incorporated novels into the works which specially provide forthe Buddhists.