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"Research on Early Buddhist Statues on the Southwest Silk Road" conducted a detailed investigation of the money tree Buddha statues, Buddha statues carved on cliff tombs, pottery Buddha statues, and money tree Buddha statues in public and private collections at home and abroad found in southwest China. The treatise divides the money tree Buddha statues into the middle, late and late Eastern Han Dynasty and the early Shu Han period. Not only did it point out that the early Buddhist statues in the southwest were a blend of the Indian Gandhara and Motura artistic styles, but the Money Tree Buddha statue was the product of the fusion of Chinese and Indian cultures. In addition, combined with documents such as "Historical Records", "Hanshu" and "Houhanshu", the cultural exchanges between China and India were sorted out, and the spread of foreign acrobatics and illusions in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China was examined. It was pointed out that the early Buddhist statues in the southwest were directly introduced from India through the Southwest Silk Road (i. E. The ancient Shu body poisonous route), and had some influence on the early Buddhist statues in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.