The earliest belief in Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha found in China began at the Northern Liang Dynasty (397-439A.D.). So far as the time concerned, the earliest icon of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha seems to be appeared around about early seventh century under the reign of The Early-Tang Dynasty. There are copious store of icons of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha inside of The Dunhuang Grottoes in the form of mural-paintings. The creation of icon of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha began at the period of the Early-Tang and continued to the Song Dynasty and The Western Xia Dynasty. Mr.Matsumoto Eiichi, Mr.Kawahara Yoshro, Mr. LUO Hua-qing and Mr. PAN Wen-liang had published their study earlier on the specific subject of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha but there are still some relative questions remained to be study of . Here, this article made a breakthrough on the certain academic level of Iconographic study by declaration of the illustration to the Dasacakra-sūtra on the site of Dunhuang Grottoes belongs the icon belief in the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. For the first time, this article shows a thorough systematic on-the-site investigation for the icon of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha at the Pre-Tang Dynasty and made corrections over to some definition in term of religious terminology and chronological mistakes in the study of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha and made up two new records of Icons of the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha to The General Catalogue of the Master Contents of The Dunhuang Grottoes and another two pieces of Illustration to the Daāacakra-sūtra which had never mentioned to any of the publishers.
