石灯,作为佛教寺院的供具之一,又称佛灯。佛家谓佛法犹如灯明,能破世间冥暗,故以灯标识佛之无穷智慧和法力。寺中佛灯,往往年年岁岁,焚膏继晷,长燃不熄,明终不尽,故又称长明灯。唐《隋唐嘉话》云:“江宁县寺有晋长明灯,岁久火色变青而不热。隋文帝平陈,已讶其古,至今犹存。”若此处所言长明灯即为石灯,则推测寺院设置石灯应在两晋南北朝之前。惜实物不存,犹广陵散之成绝响。目前所见中国隋唐以前佛寺石灯最早的实物资料为北齐时代太原童子寺一件孤品(图一,3),故早期佛教寺院石灯的规制已难确考。 Stone lamps, as one of the Buddhist temples, also known as Buddha light. Buddhism that Dharma like light, can break the world Ming dark, so the light of Buddha’s infinite wisdom and mana. Buddhist temple lamp, often years old, burning cream following 晷, long burning does not extinguish, never ending, it is also known as long light. Tang “Sui and Tang Jiahua” cloud: “Jiangning County Temple has Jin Chang Ming Deng, years old fire color green instead of heat. Sui Wendi Ping Chen, has surprised its ancient, still exist.” If the long light here that is For the stone light, it is speculated that the stone temples should be set before the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. However, the real thing does not exist, Jusanling scattered into exquisite sound. At present, the earliest material information of the stone lanterns in the Buddhist temples before the Sui and Tang dynasties in China is the same as that of the Tongzi Temple in the Northern Qi Dynasty (Figure 1 and 3). Therefore, the regulation of stone lanterns in early Buddhist temples has been hard to test.