『五臺山圖』의 티벳 전파와 내륙아시아 불교세계 속에서 五臺山의 위상

After the Tang-Tibetan treaty was agreed during the Chang-qing era, which established peace for more than two decades, the Tibetan Empire sent an envoy to the Tang court in 824 through the Ling-wu district, and requested a painting on the Wu-tai-shan. The Wu-tai-shan(五臺山), also known as Wu-tai Mountain or Qing-liang Mountain(淸涼山), has been identified as the home of the Boddhisattva of Wisdom, Manjusri(文殊) since the Northern Wei(北魏) period. In that time, Northern Shan-xi(山西), includes Ping-cheng(平城) and Wu-tai area, had been developed as the sacred place not only among the chinese Buddhists but also in Inner Asian buddhism World. Since the Northern Wei, established by the Xian-bei(鮮卑) from the Mongolia, the Buddhism had been introduced in northern China in the full scale, along the Yellow River. Simultaneously Turk, Uyighur empire in mongolia also was influenced the Buddhism through the Xian-bei governments and directly from the central asia. This buddhist connection in Inner Asia, includes Tibet, had been lasted until Qing dynasty through the Xi-xia, Kitai and the Mongols, so Wu-tai-shan is the sacred place for the chinese buddhists, but also is the Holy land in the Inner Asian Buddhism World.