筆者閱讀中國中古時代所翻譯的各式佛經時，發現在佛教的觀念中，基本上認為睡眠不宜過多、過長，甚或耽溺於其中。早在釋迦牟尼傳道的原始佛教階段，他便在這方面對弟子屢有指示，日後隨著僧侶教團的擴張，進而發展出一套與睡眠相關的論述。如果以佛教僧侶做為一個觀察的「社群」對象，初步發現，他們都有刻意減少睡眠以及睡眠焦慮的共同現象。文中主要以佛經中的記載為主，初步嘗試探討佛教對睡眠的基本態度，以及應對的方法。

When I read the Chinese translated Buddhism classics in the middle ancient times, finding it among the ideas of Buddhism, the basic views of sleep, should not be too many, too long, even indulge in among them. At the primitive Buddhism stage that Sakyamuni preaches, he repeatly points out the disciple in this respect, with the expansion of monk's order in the future, and then develop a set of argumentation correlated with sleeping. If regard Buddhism monk as the target of that observe "community", find tentatively, they all reduce the sleep and anxious common phenomenon of sleep sedulously. Rely mainly on record in Sutras in the article, try to probe into Buddhism to the basic attitude of the sleep tentatively, and the method that how to deal with.