武则天作为中国历史上唯一的女皇帝,其在历史长河中激起的绚丽浪花,不仅仅是因为她的性别,或许更多的,是她使用佛教作为宗教和政治意识形态。佛教在亚洲大陆的兴起与传播,不唯是信仰与宗教的输出输入,也是意识形态的融合与激荡。佛教的传播,不但置中古时代人的心灵世界于佛光的照耀之下,而且重塑王权内涵,改造政治话语,革新政治礼仪,在本土天命天子之说之外,宣扬佛教对理想世俗君主的观念,这是不可忽视的中国中古时代政治世界与信仰世界 As the only female emperors in Chinese history, Wu Zetian’s brilliant waves sparked by history not only because of her gender, but perhaps more because of her use of Buddhism as a religious and political ideology. The rise and spread of Buddhism in Asia is not only the input and output of faith and religion, but also the fusion and agitation of ideology. The dissemination of Buddhism not only sets the spiritual world of the ancient people under the light of the Buddha, but also reshape the connotation of the royal power, reform the political discourse, reform political etiquette, and preach Buddhism’s conception of ideal secular monarchy This is a political and faith world that can not be ignored in medieval China