The Research For The Groups Of The Monks In The Liao Dynasty

The monk group is an important part of the social groupsin Liao Dynasty, Because the rulers of the support, the rapiddevelopment of Buddhism and development of Buddhist groups areespecially noteworthy. This paper starts from the perspectiveof social history. The monk group as the object of study isdivided into three part: the basic situation of Buddhist monksgroup、the monk group in social activities、social control andthe monk group.The first chapter is the basic situation of the LiaoDynasty monk. The monk group has several features such as thehigher cultural background, a large proportion of women andlack of the eldest son. The inner part of the monk group hasdifferent classification. The temple management and the higherhonor monk group make up the upper. First-line managers and academic classes are the middle class. In addition, there isalso a large number of ordinary monks. Effect of class divisionis mainly affected by the original family status, the monksof personal qualities and the rulers preferences. Monksproperty is mainly from the donation beg alms and own business.Property is used mainly for providing for themselves, templeconstruction, buddhist activities consume. The monk havingprivate property is a common phenomenon in Liao Dynasty.Private property has the following two characteristics: It hasmany types, the other one is that wealth is effected by themonk. The second chapter is the Buddhist social activities.In order to realize their own development, the monk groups needto participate in social activities. Social activities aredivided into the upper society activities and the activitiesof civil society. The monk community activities show thefollowing characteristics: on the political dependency andhelpless、the choice of the upper society to monks、benign system construction of folk activities、contacting with theoriginal families. The third chapter is the social controls.It mainly manifests in the following four aspects: the monkofficial system and National injunction、the selectionprocedure control、the pressure of public opinion and theregulation of social conflict.The monk group characteristics affect the development ofBuddhism in Liao Dyansty. The study on layered internal monkgroup can cognitive monk group image better. Observing fromthe perspective of Social control.We can have a betterunderstanding of the relationship between Buddhist groups andthe state power, recognize the monks at the time of the socialstatus in Liao Dynasty.