西藏佛教寺院内部的等级结构

寺院是社会的一个特殊组织形式,其内部存在着错综复杂的等级关系。公元8世纪,桑耶寺建成后出现了分配方面的等级差别。这是西藏寺院内部等级的萌芽。后弘期开始后,随着宗派的出现,僧人的等级差别越趋明显,以至在寺院内部形成了统治和被统治两大阶层,寺院也因此成为西藏封建农奴制社会的缩影。

The Hierarchical Structure of the Inner Temples in Tibet

Temple is a special organizing form in society with the complicated hierarchical relation in the inner part. In the 8th century, there appeared some hierarchical differences on assignment in Sangye temple after its foundation. This is just the beginning of inner hierarchy of Tibetan temples. Since the Houhong period, the hierarchical difference of monks grew more evident, even that the two classes of the governing and the governed arose. Temple therefore became the miniature of Tibetan feudal society of the serf system.