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The Four Eminent Monks of the Wanli Era (traditional Chinese: 萬曆四高僧; pinyin: Wànlì Sì Gāosēng; Wade–Giles: Wan-li Ssu Kao-seng) or “four great eminent monks of the late Ming period" (明末四大高僧) refers to four prominent monks known of the Wanli Era (1573–1620). They were well-known for their ecumenism, arguing for ...
He was only able to translate 75 distinct sections of a total of 1335 chapters, but his translations included some of the most important Mahayana scriptures. [1] Xuanzang was born on 6 April 602 in Chenliu, near present-day Luoyang, in Henan province of China. As a boy, he took to reading religious books, and studying the ideas therein with his ...
Xuanzang is a 2016 Chinese-Indian historical adventure film that dramatizes the life of Xuanzang (602—664), a Buddhist monk and scholar. [5] The film depicts his arduous nearly two-decade overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty on a mission to bring Buddhist scriptures to China, largely related to the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
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Yijing (635–713 CE), formerly romanized as I-ching or I-tsing, [1] born Zhang Wenming, was a Tang-era Chinese Buddhist monk famed as a traveller and translator. His account of his travels are an important source for the history of the medieval kingdoms along the sea route between China and India, especially Srivijaya in Indonesia.
The Memoirs of Eminent Monks (Chinese: 高僧傳; pinyin: Gāosēng Zhuàn), also known as the Biographies of Eminent Monks, is a compilation of biographies of monks in China by Hui Jiao 慧皎 of Jiaxiang Temple in Kuaiji Mountain, Zhejiang c. 530 [1] [2] from the introduction of Buddhism to China up to the Liang Dynasty.
Tanxu is known as one of the most influential monks to have had lived during the late Qing and Republican periods of Chinese history, spreading and invigorating the practice of Buddhism throughout the region. [2] He was also famous for constructing several Buddhist temples and institutes in Northern China in the early 20th century.
Zhu Zixing (Chinese: 朱士行, or Zhu Shixing) is described in Chinese Buddhism as the first Chinese person to be ordained and become a Buddhist monk via contact with others on the Silk Road. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His hometown is recorded as Yingchuan , located in Lishui , and he was ordained in Luoyang at the White Horse Temple . [ 1 ]