Relationship Between the women and Buddhism Illustrated by Epitaph of the Tang Dynasty

Buddhism was very popular in Tang Dynasty, and it had exerted a tremendous influence on politics and economy in royal court and among the peoples. About half of the population of Tang Dynasty's women, because of their special social status and other reasons, threw themselves into the ranks of Buddhism's belief. they went out to become Buddhism nuns, or practised Buddhism at home, holding fast and reading Buddhist sutra, wearing coarse clothes and eatting abstinence from meat, freeing captive animals and giving alms, studing scriptures and building statue, and observing Buddhism's discipline in several decades. From them we could find that Buddhism profoundly influenced the society of Tang Dynasty.