Abstract:
During the era of Tibetan government of Dunhuang, the Siqing(寺卿) in the temple of Dunhuang was a secular people, they were responsible for managing the temple’s possessions, the peoples affiliated to temples and monks and nuns and the officer was named mngan vog(the low mngan) in the Tibetan manuscripts. Besides, there was a Tibetan Siqing in the Du seng tong si(都僧统司) of Dunhuang monks, the officer was also named khwa mngan lta bu gnyer chen(a top manager like the temple’s grain mngan), mngan bla(the high mngan),and there were the same monk officers in Guazhou and central Tibet’s temples.The officers were not only managed by the Tibetan monk officer system, but also managed by mngan pon khab so vo chog(the exchequer’s chief officer), Guazhou du Cangcao(仓曹) and Shazhou Cangcao(stsang mngan). The Tibet government’s measure was derived from Buddhism internal rule and the secular officer mngan dpon, and also had some relationship with the Jiansi system in the Tang Dynasty. During the era of the Guiyijun(归义军) regime, Siqing was also the important monk officer in Dunhuang temples.