《黄梅老寺中山志》是一部以记载明清黄梅老祖寺及周边佛教活动为中心的佛教方志。通过对该志的梳理可见:在明末清初,士绅山主通过捐修寺院,延僧弘法,成为当地佛教事务的权力中心;清初随着几位著名僧侣先后住持老祖寺,僧团的力量迅速崛起,山主的权威隐而不显;晚清“太平天国”运动后,寺僧再次依附于捐资修庙的士绅大族。同时该志本身的编纂和增补过程也反映了寺僧对自身地位和权力网络所进行的建构,以及此过程中寺庙权力中心的两度转移。 “Huangmei Laozhong Zhongshan” is a record to the Ming and Qing Huangmei ancestral temple and surrounding Buddhist activities as the center of the Buddhist chorography. Through the combing of the book, it can be seen that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty, the gentry mountain masters became the center of power for local Buddhist affairs by donating monasteries and extending monks and monasteries. In early Qing Dynasty, as several famous monks successively lived in ancestral temples and monks The power of the mountain rose rapidly, and the authority of the mountain master hidden. However, after the movement of “Taiping Heavenly Kingdom” in the late Qing Dynasty, the monk relied on the gentry and gentry who donated money to repair the temple. At the same time, the process of codification and addition of the book itself also reflects the construction of monks ’monarchs’ networks of their own status and power, and the two shifts of temple power centers in this process.