佛教密宗在距今一千多年前的南诏时期传人大理白族地区,亦传到白族聚居县剑川,它与白族的土著文化相结合,形成自己的特点,颇具民族性和地方性,被白族称为“阿吒力”教,成为密宗的重要派别。阿吒力教兴盛于南诏中晚期,历元、明、清不衰,至今仍有广大的影响。兴教寺是国内现今仅存的明代佛教密宗白族阿吒力寺院,建于明永乐十三年(1415年),今存大殿和二殿。大殿内还存壁画20多幅,绘于明代永乐十五年(1517年)。兴教寺位于云南省剑川县沙溪寺登街,离县城西南23公里,就在闻名遐迩的全国重点文物保护单位石钟山石窟所在的石宝山下,其建筑、壁画均独 The Buddhism Tantric Buddhism spread to Bai Autonomous Region of Dali during Nanzhao period more than 1000 years ago, and also spread to Jianchuan, a county inhabited by Bai people. It combines with indigenous culture of Bai ethnic group to form its own characteristics, which are quite national and local. The Bai people call it “A 吒 力 force” teaching and become an important Tantric sect. Imam teaching flourished in the late Nanzhao, epoch, Ming and Qing not bad, there is still a vast impact. Xingjiao Temple is the only Buddhist temple in the Ming dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. It was built in Ming Dynasty in the 13th year of the Ming Dynasty (1415). There are more than 20 frescoes in the hall, which were painted fifteen years in the Ming Dynasty (1517). Xingjiao Temple is located in Dengxian Street, Shaxi Temple, Jianchuan County, Yunnan Province, 23 kilometers away from the southwest of the county seat. Under the Shibao Mountain, where the Shizhongshan Grottoes, the national key cultural relics protection and conservation center, are located, the buildings and murals are all independent