一我国早期宗教艺术与佛教艺术的传入在佛教艺术传入我国之前,由祖先崇拜和天神崇拜而形成的早期宗教艺术已相当发达,从夏商周三代的宗庙礼制艺术到汉代的墓葬艺术无不反映了我国早期宗教艺术的兴盛。而佛教传入初期,佛的形象主要是靠东来行商的天竺和中亚商人的口头传播,而在民间流传开来的,要把这些口头的形象描绘出来,就必须借助我国传统的宗教艺术形式,而从异域传来的佛教在中国发达的文明面前要想为中土民众所接受也必须利用华夏传统的宗教艺术形式。 An Introduction of Early Religious Art and Buddhism in Our Country Prior to the introduction of Buddhist art into our country, the early religious art developed by ancestor worship and worship of gods was well developed. From the art of the rites of the temple in the Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties to the burial art in the Han Dynasty All reflect the flourishing of early religious art in our country. In the early days of Buddhism, the image of Buddha mainly relied on verbal transmission of Tianzhu and Central Asian merchants from east to west. When it was spread in the folk, to portray these verbal images, we must rely on our traditional religious art Form, and the Buddhism that comes from the outside world must take advantage of Huaxia’s traditional religious and artistic forms if it is to be accepted by the Chinese and the natives before China’s developed civilization.