The Vajracchedika-sutra has a significant impact on development of Chinese Buddhism, culture and society since the translation of Kumārajīva for the first time. It has always been favoured, researched by monks and laymen, spread wide, leaving a large number of exegesis. But taking the Song dynasty as a boundary, there are a significant differences before and after. Since the song dynasty, the characteristics of worship of the Vajracchedika-sutra show up as a mount of exegesis, development of form, perfect of ritual, edition of miraculous stories, furthermore, a relatively fixed belief ritual on the Vajracchedika-sutra was formed, which has broken though the situation with the only focus on the thought aspect of the Vajracchedika-sutra before the Song dynasty, which makes the Vajracchedika-sutra effect wider to Chinese society, culture, belief, etc.% 《金刚经》自鸠摩罗什初译以来就对中国佛教与社会文化的发展产生重大影响，历来备受僧俗青睐，注疏不断，流传极广。但是以宋代为界，前后的流行有很大差异。宋代以来，《金刚经》流传的特点突出表现在注疏的庞杂、科仪的发展、仪轨的完善、灵验记的编纂等几个方面，并由此而逐渐形成了一种相对固定的信仰仪轨，完全突破了宋代之前仅限于义理层面探讨的界限，使得《金刚经》的影响扩展到中国社会、文化、信仰的方方面面。
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