A highly reliable plane display panel which has a large operating margin for making displaying operations and can stably display high-quality pictures, a method for manufacturing the panel, a controller for controlling the panel, and a method for driving the panel. The plane display panel is composed of a front glass substrate (1) provided with common electrodes and individual electrodes (3, 3a and 3b) which can be driven individually at every display cell, and a back glass substrate (10) having recessed sections which become discharging spaces. At the time of driving the plane display panel, the polarity of the wall charges accumulated on a dielectric layer (5) during displaying operations is inverted by applying voltage pulses to the individual electrodes (3) separately from the displaying operations. Thereafter, the electric field of the wall charges having the inverted polarity is added to the driving voltage, so that discharge can surely take place by applying voltage pulses for display to the electrodes (3).