Comprehensively referring to the textual records and onsite surveys, this paper makes a preliminary summarization to the data of the extant stupas in Shaanxi Province. According to the exactly dated inscriptions of these stupas or relevant tablets, this paper revealed that the two main types of the stupas— the typical stupa form and the form of the combination of the Han-styled pagoda and Tibetan-styled stupa-were mostly the burial monument stupas of the celebrated monks of the Han-Chinese Buddhist monasteries in the administrative areas of Xi’an Prefecture and Yulin Garrison of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Referring to the religious policies of the Ming Dynasty and the local religious beliefs, this paper pointed out that in the area governed by the Shaanxi Provincial Administration Commission of the Ming Dynasty, the Han Chinese Buddhism from the east and the Tibetan Buddhism from the west were coexisting and influencing each other in some sense.
