Memoirs of Eminent Monks

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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, Sichuan circa 530.[1][2] from the introduction of Buddhism to China up to the Liang Dynasty The manuscript is 14 scrolls in length with the preface given in Scroll 14.[3][4] The manuscript includes the biographies of An Shi Gao, Kumārajīva, Faxian, Dao An, Fotudeng, and others.

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