Chinese buddhist temple economy was shaped in North-South Dynasty period(A.D 420-A.D589).It was the foundation of Buddhism development in China.Government had an important impact on buddhist temple economy.To be accepted by government was the premise to give birth to Buddhist temple economy.Government and Buddhist almsgiving was the foundation of buddhism temple accumulating wealth.As the contradiction became acute between growth of Buddhist temple economy and temporal landholder economy,more and more measures to restrict the Buddhist temple economy development were adopted by government, and the extreme way was to forbid Buddhism. In the middle of Tang Dynasty, the tax-free franchise for temple and buddhist disappeared gradually, the management mode of buddhist temple economy was shifted to Zen Buddhist temple system, and the buddhist temple economy was eclipsed gradually later.
