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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 ...
During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), there was a revival of the study of native Chinese traditions like Tiantai, Huayan, and Yogachara, and most monks belonged to the two dominant Chan schools: Linji and Caodong. [34] [35] [36] At
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 ...
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Qing dynasty. The Qing court endorsed the Gelukpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. [78] During the devastating Taiping rebellion (December 1850 – August 1864), the Taiping rebels targeted Buddhism destroying temples, and burning Buddhist images and scriptures. [79]
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Faxian (337–c. 422 CE), formerly romanized as Fa-hien and Fa-hsien, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from Jin China to medieval India to acquire Buddhist scriptures. His birth name was Gong Sehi .
Sangha, also known as the Great Sage of Sizhou (泗州大聖, 'Sizhou Dasheng'; 628–710), was an eminent Chinese monk who lived in the Tang dynasty. He was a highly venerated monk during the Tang and Song dynasties. [1] The Great Sage of Sizhou is believed to be an avatar of the bodhisattva Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara). [2]
That monastery was the end point of a long line of development, which included reconstruction after some twenty or more previous destructions, and variations in size from twenty monks during the Tang dynasty (619–907) to more than 1,800 monks living in 5,000 rooms during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). [47]