Shandong Tang Dynasty Buddhist Research

Shandong remains more statues of the Tang Dynasty, a more complete form the physical sequence of the Tang Dynasty Buddhist statues, is a microcosm of the Tang Dynasty statues, to understand the statues of the Tang Dynasty in Shandong region are conducive to a better understanding of the Tang Dynasty statues of the overall style characteristics.The Tang Dynasty Buddhist statues can be roughly divided into three different styles. One is the Tang Dynasty, the early style, one is Empress Wu era style, and one is the Tang Dynasty hatching style Buddhist statues in the Tang Dynasty hatching developed to its peak. Three kinds of different statuary style's formation and the development evolution situation have the important connection with the society historical perspective then. Among them, the Buddhist remains more during Empress Wu in Shandong province, have a clear imaging and multi-age, and the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty is very clear of all the statues, during the Tang dynasty mature phase of the statues style formation has important implications. Looking in the Tang Dynasty Buddhist relics in the Shandong region, its statues style and then Long men Grotto Statue Art Center has a very close link. Shandong styles of the Tang Dynasty Buddhist both the inherent characteristics of some of the region, but also has various historical periods of the times.This article remained the situation from the Shandong area Tang Dynasty statuary to obtain, to analyze the Shandong area Tang Dynasty statuary the statuary type, the different several kind of statuary style and the statuary style characteristic time evolution as well as the Shandong area glorious age of Tang poetry Buddhism statuary general style, the Shandong area statuary and rock cave statuary arts center Dragon Gate situations then and so on statuary similarities and differences and development evolution relations.This study by the Shandong region Cliff statues, the monomer and Tap statues mainly, on the basis of research in the data, using archaeological typology, image science methods Shandong province in the Tang Dynasty Buddhist categories in parallel, and to identify the development of imaging the evolution of the relationship, and Empress Wu of the Buddhist period to make a special study.