| Dunhuang mogao grottoes is the world’s largest and most abundant content in existing buddhist art. The dunhuang murals and statues, etc., reflecting the social form of past dynasties, people’s way of life. The mural, in particular, directly or indirectly reflects the buddhist culture of people’s life and the influence of the inner demand. The repair caves chisel reason is for cult of devout buddhists, so it is show the end products of buddhist culture. Since the modern times, with the excavation of dunhuang grottoes, especially scripture-storing cave found that driving the rise of a new school of thought-dunhuang studies. Art workers also in such a rush to explore murals, create the dunhuang dance and music. Said to the mural is one of the important reasons for the formation of deriving the incoming of Buddhism, so \"dance\" walked out of the murals in the dance of the new genre of classical dance with western characteristics, look from this certainly associated with buddhist culture. And that because of a strong buddhist culture as the basis of art development, \"dance\" to show a difference with other classical dance and really deep internal spirit. As can be seen from the existing in the dance of the dunhuang, dunhuang buddhist culture of dance very bright colors., then, what is the relationship between dance and buddhist culture, buddhist culture in dunhuang dance colour how to reflect, this is suspends in front of many dance creator and scholars a major problem, in-depth exploration on this issue can be more profound understanding connotation and essence of dunhuang dance, better improve dunhuang dance, carry forward the spirit of dunhuang. In this paper, we study the key step by step from the perspective of history to interpret how dance under the influence of buddhist culture, dunhuang and the contact between them. |