陕西淳化金川湾三阶教刻经石窟

A Grotto with the San Jie Buddhist Inscription at Jinchuanwan,Chunhua,Shaanxi

陵四淳化金川湾三阶教刻经石窟,1981年文物普查时发现。窟内刻经为佛教史上已湮灭的三阶教教徒所为。其所刻经典,有三阶教祖信行所撰之数种经典,向仔世孤木。近年经对此窟进行的全面考古清理调查,知窟内东西两壁共刻佛经8部,总字数原达16万字,现存经文字数仍在6万字以上。此窟开凿年代,据窟内题记并参考有关情况,应在唐高宗龙朔二年至咸亨元年(662-670年)间。

The cave was discovered in 1981 during an archaeological reconnaissance. The inscriptions were made by monks of the Buddhist Sanjie (three stages) sect that has long fallen into oblivion. They in-clude works of Xin Xing the founder of the sect, which have never been encountered anywhere else. Clearing of the cave in recent years reveals that as many as eight Buddhist sutras of a total of 160,000 characters were engraved on its western and eastern walls, of which over 60,000 are still there. According to the inscriptions, the cave was first carved somewhere between the second years of the Longxiang reign period and the first year of the Xianheng reign period of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty.