該書以貴州弘福寺為研究對象，調查階段採用了文化人類學的主位/客位觀察、當面/電話訪談、查找地方文獻資料等方法；寫作階段運用了文化人類學的功能分析、歷時/共時比較等理論與方法。全書共約15萬字，分為9個部分。第一部分是前言，最後一部分是結論，其餘八個部分分別對弘福寺的歷史際遇、自然/人文環境、寺院建築、寺院分工與管理、寺院經濟、文化生態、僧尼群體生活、宗教活動等多方面進行了細緻的描寫，對某些問題進行了較為深入的分析。該書認為弘福寺的歷史命運受到它所處時代的政治、經濟、軍事等社會大環境的影響；弘福寺可以看作是該寺的歷史殘存與現代社會現實摹本的有機組合；弘福寺現狀就是對其所處地理、生態、人文等因素作出的一種回應；聖俗兩界的對立與統一有其深層原因，此二界之間的互動關係使二者均作出調適變通，從而引起了聖俗二界的變遷；弘福寺的存在與其他寺廟一樣，既有其負面功能，又有其正面功能，現階段具體表現為正功能大於負功能；作為漢傳佛教寺廟的一個縮影，弘福寺的某些方面蘊涵著豐富而深刻的含義。

　　關鍵詞：

　　弘福寺  佛教  寺院文化  文化人類學  弘福僧尼  宗教活動

　　Abstract

　　The book takes Guizhou Hongfu Temple as a study object. The following methods are employed during investigation: emic/etic observation, face to face/ telephone interview, consulting the local writing materials, etc.In writing, such theories and methods as functional analysis and symbolic analysis of anthropology, diachronic/synchronic comparison, etc.are used in the article. There ara about 120,000 characters in the article which is divided into nine parts. The first is introduction and the last one is conclusion. The other eight parts separately describe in detail the historicalturns of Hongfu Temple, natural/human　environment, the temple architecture,function division and management,the temple economic,culture ecology, the life of Buddhists and the religious activities. It gives a deeper analysis to some aspects. The book holds that the historical fate of Hongfu Temple was influenced by  the  social  environment  of  politics, economy and military of its time. The Hongfu Temple can be regarded  as   the  organic  combination  of its historical remains and the copy of modern social reality .The present status can be regarded as a reflection of such factors as geography, ecology and human; the unity and opposition of holy world nd secular world has its deeper reasons. The interaction of the two worlds makes the two adjust to each other and causes the two to change. The existence of Hongfu Temple just like other temples has both positive functions and negative functions. At present,it has more positive functions than negative ones.

　　As a miniature of Buddhism temples, some aspects of Hongfu Temple have plentiful and profound meanings.

　　

Key words:Hongfu Temple, Buddhism, temple culture, cultural Anthropology, Buddhists of Hongfu Temple, religious activities