Exploring on the Temple Land and Related Issues of the Liao Dynasty

People of the Liao Dynasty believed in Buddhism.The temple Economy with the core elements to the temple land highly developed.The source of the temple land of the Liao Dynasty roughly had three channels including inheritance,donation and purchase.The donation,purchase,possession,inheritance and dispute of the temple land had also related legal instruments and the legal instruments were cut in stone as evidence.The cultivators of the temple land were indeed two kinds of tax account of the double taxation of the temple manor.In the temple land and the temple garden,they planted with various the unique grains,vegetables and fruit of the Khitan Liao Dynasty around.The surplus products in the temple land also expedited lending business activities of the Monks,this made the temple economy of the Liao Dynasty presented trend of diversification.