Among the creative Buddhas’ images in Chinese Buddhism, the image of Vasistha and Mrgasirsa were the images once popular from person to person during Northern Dynasties to the Early Tang Period. It is not strange to find the two images in some existent Buddhist steles?sculptures in copper and in several sites of Buddhist Temple Caves. At Mogao Grottoes, from caves dated from Northern Wei?Western Wei?Northern Zhou?Sui and the Early Tang Dynasty, there are 29 portraits of them appeared in a pairs. By a comprehensive investigation, the study of the two images shows there are three phrases of development of the image of Vasistha and Mrgasirsa. This article tries to verify textual basis and approach to a point of what Buddhist religion dogma embodied in the two images.
