Unearthed from the site of Xiuding Monastery in Anyang, the Buddhist reliquary dated the fifth year of Tianbao's Reign in the Northern Qi Dynasty (554 CE) is the only extant example of stupa-shaped Buddhist reliquary from the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Its structure, shape and decoration combine the characteristics of Gandharan stupa-shaped reliquaries and porcelains in the later period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, reflecting the frequent cultural communication in the Ye City area of the Northern Qi Dynasty. The inscription on the base of the reliquary records the imperial family's activity of stupa construction and offerings to relics of the Buddha in the Northern Qi Dynasty, as well as the importance of Prajna and Nirvana in relic worship practice of the time. The later inscription engraved in the tenth year of Kaihuang's Reign (590 CE) in the Sui Dynasty is a precious historical record of the rise and fall of the Xiuding Monastery in the Northern Qi and Sui dynasties.