The Prevail Attitude Towards Alcoholic Drink Among Buddhist Monks and Nuns of Dunhuang During The Later-Tang Period to The Northern Song Dynasty

The Buddhist monastic disciplinary rulers hold alcoholic drink at the bay. From the textual research on the Dunhuang Manuscripts especially those of the non-Buddhist documents which were dating from the later 8~(th) century to the 11~(th) century, the contradictory facts that the Buddhist monks and nuns drank alcoholic was reflected by over ten pieces of everyday account books belongs to the same Buddhist Monastery at Dunhuang and there are little complains on the habit of drink alcoholic by Buddhist Monks and nuns come up neither official rank nor monastic ruling-class and the common lot of people. The phenomenon as a receptacle of the phenomenal world had demonstrated the fact that the Buddhist society at Dunhuang did not following the disciplinary rulers. By this typical example, a rewarding area was opened to a study of Dunhuang Buddhism and the Chinese Buddhism because this spectacular angle could truly show the nature of how Chinese Buddhist find the chance to fitting into the reality world of secular context.