萧子良所作的《净住子净行法门》是南北朝时期佛教仪式研究的重要资料?本文在先行研究的基础上,对《净住子净行法门》的仪式内容和结构重新加以探讨,提出《净住子》三十一门并不存在仪式内容与非仪式内容的区别,而是首尾一贯地与仪式直接联系?《净住子》对应的仪式性质为忏仪,其格式为五悔?其中五悔固有的忏悔仪节被改造为围绕忏悔的一系列仪节,大大加强了仪式的劝善作用?这种作法对于《慈悲道场忏法》的仪式安排产生了重要影响?此外,本文比较了《净住子》与《十住毗婆沙论》的仪式思想,探讨了萧子良对其所作的发展?

XIAO Zi-liang’s Practices of Pure Conducts of Jingzhuzi is significant for the study of Buddhist rituals in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. By investigating its content of rituals and structure, this thesis finds that all the 31 chapters of the Practices are about the rituals and orderly arranged from this perspective. The Practices are essentially of confession rituals with the form of “five confessions”, which has been reformed so as to reinforce rituals’ function of teaching people to do good. This has greatly influenced the arrangement of rituals in Methods of Confession in Cibeidaochang. Besides, the thesis makes the comparison of the ideas of rituals between the Practices and Da?abhūmika-vibhā?ā-?āstra and detectes the contributions made by XIAO’s Practices.