The Buddhist cave shrines of Xiangtangshan in Fengfeng Mining District, Handan, Hebei province, were created in the Northern Qi period (550-577). In addition to their highly refined sculptures and innovative design, the Xiangtangshan caves are rich in textual content. Many of the caves have engraved inscriptions that include Buddhist scriptures and dedications of sculptures of Buddhist divinities by donor-worshippers. Of particular importance, the stele of Northern Qi official Tang Yong, records his sponsorship of the carving of entire Buddhist texts at the Cave of the Engraved Scriptures between the years 568 and 572. This is the only dated Northern Qi period inscription providing contemporary evidence of the existence of the Northern Xiangtangshan caves.

The engravings and relief carvings are recorded as photographs of rubbings that were produced with ink on paper by Zhang Lintang and Xu Peilan. The Center for the Art of East Asia has acquired them through their generosity. They have published the rubbings together with transcriptions of the texts in Xiangtangshan shiku beike tiji zonglu [An Overall Record of the Summaries of the Stone Inscriptions at the Xiangtangshan Grottoes], v. 1 and 2, Beijng: Foreign Languages Press, 2007. The rubbings on the website refer to their figure numbers in the book. This site was created by Charles Crable and Katherine Tsiang with the assistance of Zhiyan Yang and Zhenru Zhou. See. also, the Xiangtangshan Caves Project website, https://xts.uchicago.edu.

响堂山佛教石窟群位于今河北省邯郸市峰峰矿区，开凿于北齐时期(550-577)。该石窟群不仅有精致的造像、在当时极具原创性的设计，还蕴藏有丰富的文字材料。许多洞窟中都出现了石刻铭文，内容包括佛教经文和供养人题记。其中尤为重要的是北齐朝臣唐邕的石碑，题记记录了他于568至572年间在“刻经洞”施刻佛经的过程。这是现存唯一北齐时期的纪年铭文，证明了北响堂山石窟在北齐已存在。

张林堂与许培兰此前制作了响堂山石窟刻经及浮雕的拓片，并慷慨地将拓片的数字图像分享给了芝加哥大学东亚艺术中心。这些拓片及其录文曾发表于《响堂山石窟碑刻题记总录1-2册》（北京外文出版社），本网站展示的拓片均与书中的图版编号相对应。本网站由Charles Crable、蒋人和创建，杨之彦、周真如协助创建。响堂山石窟项目主页，请前往：https://xts.uchicago.edu/.