在唐宋敦煌宗教史的既有研究中,对苯教始终付诸阙如,然敦煌藏文本佛教疑伪经、苯教仪轨书、占卜书、医书等相关资料显示,苯教教团不仅曾经流寓敦煌,而且在经受敦煌佛教界竭力排挤的境况下,仍广泛地从事丧葬祭祀、占卜禳厌、驱鬼疗疾等宗教社会活动,并在特定时期扮演着敦煌吐蕃族群利益代言人的角色。同时在宗教仪轨、民俗信仰等领域对敦煌佛教和社会生活产生持久的影响,是敦煌区域史中不应忽视的宗教力量。 In the existing studies of Dunhuang religious history in Tang and Song dynasties, Benjaminism was always absent, but Dunhuang Tibetan Buddhism was suspected of preaching Buddhism, Bodhidharma books, divination books, medical books and other related materials. Dunhuang is also a place where Buddhism dwells in Dunhuang, and is still widely engaged in the religious and social activities such as funeral ritual, divination, disgusting and spirits, and under the circumstances that the Buddhist circles in Dunhuang tried hard to crowd it out. In a certain period, it plays the role of advocate for Tibetan Buddhism in Dunhuang. At the same time, it has a lasting impact on the Buddhist and social life in Dunhuang through religious rituals, folk beliefs and other fields. It is a religious force that should not be neglected in Dunhuang regional history.