The monastic punishment system had been existed in Buddhist Society and found to be practiced in Dunhuang area for a long historic period during the later-Tang and the Five Dynasties. The Important and chief items of the Buddhist monastic punishment had embodied of the two statutes: mete out the monastic punishment by imposing a fine on someone to pay money or chose to pay material thing and sentence somebody to laboring, for instance, to pay wine to entertainment occasion or entertain guest with food and drinking ; to handed over grains to monastery and even the item that punish someone by canning. By a careful textual research , this article pointed out that those items of Buddhist monastic punishment of Dunhuang area had reflected a strong influence under the regulations of the local community and the membership of the local organization and even took the referent from government administration decree and even more some of the items were adopted directly from above mentioned regulations and decree.
