陕西白水北宋妙觉寺塔基及地宫的发掘

The Excavation of MiaoJue Temple Pagoda Foundations and Underground Palace at Baishui County, Shaanxi Province

1996年10月30日,位于白水县城西南部的白水中学在取土基建时偶然发现夯土建筑基础一处,并在距地表约4米的夯土层中发现残缺不整的造像碑五通、八棱石经幢一块,它们被整齐地置放在建筑基础的正中部位.并且在施工过程中,发现在距地表2米处的夯层中央有一直径为6厘米的六棱形直孔,深约4米.11月4日,白水中学有关领导组织力量沿六棱直孔向下继续挖掘,并于当晚发现一方形砖室地宫,遂冒雨于当夜将地宫内文物悉数取出.

MiaoJue Temple is located at Baishui Middle School, southwest of the Baishui County, Shaanxi Province. Itwas discovered during the school construction The temple foundations consisted of underground passageway and the underground palace. 6 statue steles, incomplete text poles, stone tower, gold and argent tower, reliquary and sarira, bronze mirror and other valuable cultural relics were unearthed. 2 of these 6 statue steles belong to Beiwei Dynasty, 2 belong to Xiwei Dynasty and the other 2 belong to Beizhou to Sui Dynasty. According to these stalue steles, it was presumed that the Miaojue Temple should be built in Xiwei Dynasty and broken down at the end of Song Dynasty or the early Ming Dynasty. Miaojue Temple Pagoda should be built at least before 1022AD. The underground palace was closed in 1023AD, the first year of TianSheng, RenZong of Song Dynasty. It is the first detailed dated underground palace of Beisong Dynasty in Shaanxi Province.