The importance of this thesis can be differentiates between two points: One, investigate the contents and relationships and the same and differences of old tripitaka catalogue and reorganize it. Two, digitize the organized catalogue and save it. The reason why we choose Jin dynasty tripitaka is its abounding values. About its values, we discuss it in three ways. First, because it is the copy of the first tripitaka Ｋai bao tzang，it represents the contents of the first tripitaka. And it is the second tripitaka, now it is the oldest and the most valuable edition which exists. Second, the contents are abundant. It has 6980 rolls, and some of them are seldom seen by the other tripitakas, so it includes many scriptures which are not seen in other tripitakas. Third, Jin dynasty tripitaka are valuable culture relics. Because when it is discovered, it is the printed books of old wood block and is not complete. For this, we should recover and maintain it. The carving of Jin dynasty tripitaka is not accidental. It is tsuei fa jen who cut her arm and vowed to crave it. The process was also hard. The founding was raised by villager. And the craving period of time last for thirty years. The hard craving process is valuable for us to study it. The main method of comparison of this thesis is to compare Zhi yao lu、Mr. Jiang’s catalogue,Chinese tripitaka、Beijing National Library jin tripitaka and Mr. Lee’s catalogue, using XML method. in order to find the same and the different part of the catalogues. The reasons we choose these five tripitakas as the targets are because the contents of Zhi yao lu are the same as the contents of Jin dynasty tripitaka, so we use Zhi yao lu as the reference. And the Mr. Jiang’s catalogue is revised by Mr. Jiang in Shanxi Guangsheng Temple and use Gao li tzang and Zhi yuan lu to mend it, part of the catalogues are real. Chinese nation tripitaka use Mr. Jiang’s edition as the original edition, and add other tripitaka’s scriptures to finish it. Also, the Beijing library Jin tripitaka let us see the actual copy of the wood block. Mr. Lee’s jin tripitaka consult Mr. Jiang’s catalogue and Sheau ye shyuan miao catalogue, and we use all these catalogues to investigate the same and difference Buddhist scriptures. The investigating method is also go through in two ways. First, read the related materials and realize these five catalogues’ situation, history, and the relationships between each other. Second, use computer method to analyze it. In this way, we use XML to record every single scripture, and we can recognize every scripture and the contents of Zhi yuan lu. Then, we use link tag to link the same scriptures of first four catalogues. It may be the same scriptures in four catalogues, or in three catalogues, or in two catalogues. After linking, we write Python file to convert it to HTML file. In this way, we can see the scriptures on the internet, and when we choose one of the scriptures, it will show the oth
