The Dai-language Beiye Sutra is a precious cultural heritage of our country. In addition to recording Buddhist classics, it also contains Dai astronomy and calendar, social history, laws and regulations, folk customs, medicine, production and life, ethics and morals, literature and art, and many other aspects. As far as Buddhist classics are concerned, after the Bayeux Sutra was introduced to the Dai area in my country, many Dai eminent monks and sages wrote a considerable number of works based on Buddhist teachings and combined with the original culture of the Dai people. These writings gradually formed the traditional culture of the Dai people with distinctive characteristics. .

For more than a thousand years, the Dai people have cherished the Dai Beiye Sutra as a treasure passed down from generation to generation and known as the "Shenzhou carrying the history and culture of the Dai people". To this day, the Dai-language Beiye Sutra is still being read, studied, used and carved by people, and the Dai-language Beiye Sutra culture still has value and significance. In April 2001, the Xishuangbanna Prefecture Government held the first Bayeux Culture Seminar in Jinghong City. More than 200 experts and scholars attended the seminar, and more than 130 papers were received, which shows that people have great interest in this unique culture. attention to the phenomenon. Over the past fifty years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, in accordance with the ethnic and religious policies of the Communist Party of China, governments at all levels have done a lot of work on the protection and excavation of Dai Beiye culture. The first is to collect and organize the Bayeux Sutras to prevent them from being lost and damaged; the second is to set up specialized agencies and dedicated personnel to classify and register the Bayeux Sutras, and write out the title and summary of the contents. Some of the classic works about Dai culture have also been translated, and some of the Bayeux Classics have been translated into Chinese. In addition, the research work on the Dai Beiye Sutra has also achieved certain results. Several papers and introductory articles have been published. In recent years, based on the content of the Bayeux Sutra, the literary and art circles have also created many innovative artistic works, such as the large-scale dance dramas "Zhao Shutun and Nammun Nona" and "Langasi He"; the large-scale musical poetry drama " Songkran Festival", the movie "Peacock Princess", etc. Many contents in the Bayeux Sutra have also become materials for the creation of art paintings. Many works have won awards at home and abroad for their unique styles. The influence of Dai Baye culture is constantly expanding.

However, we must also note that compared with the profound content of the Bayeux Sutra and the extensive and profound influence of the Bayeux Sutra, our collection, arrangement and research of the Bayeux Sutra are still preliminary and very incomplete. Fully. The main reason is that there are still a large number of Bayeux classics that have not been translated into Chinese, and its multifaceted value has not yet been fully recognized by us. What is even more worrying is that many Bayeux classics are still scattered among the people and are in danger of being lost at any time.

Under such circumstances, the People's Publishing House, with its foresight and foresight, decided to publish 100 volumes of "The Complete Works of the Chinese Baye Sutra". This is indeed a major event in the cultural history of the Dai people and a milestone in the Buddhist culture of our country. Big event. In order to complete the publication of this complete set, it is necessary to carry out more in-depth, comprehensive and systematic collection, arrangement and translation of the Bayeux Sutra, so that the Bayeux Sutra, a treasure of human culture, can be preserved, accumulated and passed down. This is a matter of immeasurable merit.

Southern Pali Buddhism is one of the three major language Buddhisms in my country. It has its own characteristics in terms of theory, doctrine, precepts, etc., and is closer to early Buddhism. Through the Bayeux Sutra, we can more accurately understand some situations of early Buddhism and more clearly reflect the development context of Theravada Buddhism, thus enriching and developing the content of Theravada Buddhism, especially Dai Buddhism. The Beiye Sutra in Dai is not only a Buddhist classic, it is also the culmination of the traditional culture of the Dai people and the "encyclopedia" of the Dai people. The development of national culture is traditional. Many contents in the Bayeux Sutra are not only not inconsistent with the purpose of building socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization that we are carrying out today, but also have similarities. Therefore, we should cherish this national cultural heritage and make it useful for the present. The Bayeux Sutra is also a cross-country, cross-regional and cross-ethnic culture. Publishing and studying the Bayeux Sutra can strengthen understanding and cooperation between countries, regions, and ethnic groups, especially friendly cooperation between my country and Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Central Asian countries. The publication of the Bayeux Sutra can play an important role in cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.

The country is prosperous, the people are prosperous, the nation is prosperous, and social progress is the common aspiration and goal of people of all ethnic groups in our country, including Buddhists. The national spirit cultivated by national culture and the infinite power inspired by the national spirit will encourage us to work more unitedly on the road to achieving this goal. From this perspective, the publication of "The Complete Works of Chinese Bayeux Sutra" is of extraordinary significance.