明代南京佛寺修建考

明代南京佛寺修建分为三个阶段明初敕建一批佛寺，带动了寺院的恢复；明代中期，僧人是佛寺修建主角，为寺院发展时期；明代后期，士、僧大建佛寺，是寺院繁盛时期。从空间分布来看，中城、东城佛寺较多，南城最为集中，而西城、北城相对较少。寺院间距，一般不超过十里，很多甚至相邻相接。明代南京佛寺有名称可数者近210所，总数起码有300所，最多可能超过600所。

Building of Buddhist Temples in Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty

Building of Buddhist temples in Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty might fall into three stages: (a) In the early days of the Dynasty there built by imperial order a number of Buddhist temples, bring along the returning of building Buddhist temples and making to develop; (b) in the middle of the Dynasty was a slowly developing period, the monks played the main role in the affairs; (c) In the late Ming Dynasty was the prosperous period, the known educated persons and especially the monks of high renown were taking the leading roles in the affairs. (2) As to the spacial distribution, the southern section was the most distributed, and then the central, the eastern, the western and the northern were in proper order. The distribution of the temples were concentrated in form, sometimes there was one neighboring the other, and the average distance between two temples was ten li or so. (3) There were about 210 Buddhist temples counted by name in Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty; the total was 300 at least; a rude estimated would be 610 and more.