Gaoseng zhuan

The Gaoseng zhuan ( Chinese  高僧传 , Pinyin Gāosēng zhuàn  - "Biographies of Famous Monks") by Huijiao are a collection of biographies of Buddhist monks in China from 519 . They range from the introduction of Buddhism in China to the Northern Wei Dynasty .

The first part was translated into French by Robert Shih (1968).

literature

• John Kieschnick: Buddhism: Biographies of Buddhist Monks. In: Daniel Woolf (Ed.): The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Beginnings to AD 600 (= Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume 1). Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 2011-2012, ISBN 9780199218158 , pp. 535-552.
• Robert Shih (Ed.): Biographies des Moines Éminents (Kao seng tchouan) de Houei-kiao. Volume 1: Biographies des premiers Traducteurs. Institute Orientaliste et al., Louvain 1968 ( Bibliothèque du Muséon 54, ZDB -ID 429348-4 ).
• Tian, ​​Xiaofei: From the Eastern Jin through the early Tang (317-649). In: Kang-i Sun Chang, Stephen Owen (Eds.): The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. To 1375 (= The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. Volume 1). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 9780521855587 , pp. 264-266.

Web links

• The text of the Gaoseng zhuan in the database of the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA).