Research On The Construction Of Tibetan Monasteries And Its Structural Changes (960-1910 AD)

Tibet is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,with a closed geographical environment and a unique climate.It is deeply influenced by Tibetan Buddhism in political,economic,and cultural aspects.Its distinctive religious society,as a specimen of human society,is worthy of our in-depth exploration.This article is interested in how the number of Tibetan Buddhist temples has grown and changed? what does this mean?This article believes that the number of monasteries in Tibet has important connections with climate changes,economic development in Chinese?mainland,and sectarian competition in the religious market.Its growth and changes are the result of the interaction of these balanced forces,which constitute the regime of monasteries construction.Therefore,the structural change in this article refers to the change of one or several balanced forces that constitute the temple construction system.This research is conducive to grasping the historical evolution process and characteristics of Tibetan Buddhist monastery construction in the historical period,and its conclusions provide useful enlightenment for a better understanding of the spreading process of Tibetan Buddhism and the development context of Tibet‘s economy and so-ciety,as well as for contemporary Tibet‘s economic policies and society,provides im-portant historical basis for the theory of the Chinese nation community.This article has established a time series database from 960-1910 AD by collecting and collating literature and materials in Tibetan,Chinese and English cultural relics,archaeology,paleo-climatic reconstruction,history,economics and other disciplines..On the basis of this database,the above-mentioned problems are studied.Chapter2 gives a general introduction to the history of Tibet,the history of Tibetan Buddhism,the doctrines of various sects,and the history of economic and trade exchanges between Tibet and the mainland of China,and prepares the historical knowledge for the analysis of subsequent chapters.Chapter 3 uses ARDL model and Error Correction Model(ECM)to study the impact of climate change on temple construction and how to adapt climate shocks.Chapter 4 uses the VEC model to study the co-integration relationship between rice prices in Chinese?mainland and monastery construction,with the intention of portraying the strength of the relationship and the characteristics of historical evolution between the two places.Chapter 5 uses the Hotelling model and the signal game model to analyze the sectarian competition in the Tibetan religious market,and studies the evolution history of Tibetan Buddhism,the rise of the Gelug Sect and its influence on the construction of temples.Chapter 6 analyzes the changes in the temple construction regime with principal component analysis and structural changes measurement methods.The main conclusions of this paper are: there is no long-term co-integration relationship between climate change and monastery construction,and the number of newly built monasteries will respond to climate shocks in the short term;the cointegration coefficient between rice prices and the number of monasteries is significant.The attractiveness of Tibetan areas is getting stronger and stronger;due to the pressure of competition,the doctrines of the various sects of Tibetan Buddhism are gradually converging,and the management efficiency within the monastery organization is getting higher and higher.The Gelug Sect has won by sending out strict precepts and the number of monasteries.The final victory was achieved;the time of the largest structural change in the temple construction system was in 1635.Possibly as early as1160,Tibetan Buddhism was integrated with Tibetan society.1396-1580 was an era of great changes in temple construction.The main contributions of this paper are the study of the construction of monasteries in the U-Tsang area with the historical science of measurement and the game theory,which provides a new perspective for understanding related Tibetological issues;comprehensively uses data from multidisciplinary fields such as paleo-climate reconstruction and Chinese economic history to carry out Tibetology The research has injected vitality into the study of Tibet‘s economic history,and the conclusions have provided empirical evidence for certain historical studies;established the timeline of structural changes in the monastery construction system,studied the dynamics that caused the changes,and provided new chronology for the study of Tibet‘s history in accordance with.