The skar-cung Stone stele,one of the 13 stone steles from the Tubo period,records the achievements of successive rulers in building temples and the policies of supporting and protecting Buddhism during the reign of King Tride Songtsan(776-815),belonging to the category of stone steles for promoting Buddhism and alliance.The inscription is a combination of material artifacts and historical philology text.Therefore,based on the archaeological survey,historical records and academic review of the skar-cung Stone stele,this paper adds two points:First,there were unpublished important excavation information in the 1993 archaeological survey report.According to the bulletin of 1993,glazed tiles and gray bricks with chessboard-like patterns were unearthed,along with bricks engraved with the Tibetan script"go rmo ram la".It is evident that the construction of the skar-cung Lakhang Temple not only extensively utilized gray bricks,fired bricks and glazed tiles originating from the Han region but also featured the phenomenon of inscriptions and carvings on bricks.Second,through a systematic examination of the changes in the recording and application of the temple name"skar cung"and the corrected writing"skar chung",as well as the erroneous writing"dkar chung"in different historical materials and contemporary academic articles,this paper thereby provides an understanding of its changing process:it was initially recorded as"skar cung"in the original inscriptions;influenced by standardization of script after the 12th century,it was written as"skar chung";in the 13th century,some historical texts began to mistakenly record it as"dkar chung";later,this error was perpetuated by historians of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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