Text: Gao seng zhuan 高僧傳

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Title Gao seng zhuan 高僧傳 [Wright 1990]
Date [None]
Author Sengyou, 僧祐 [Wright 1990]

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[Wright 1990]  Wright, Arthur F. “Biography and Hagiography: Hui-chiao’s Lives of Eminent Monks.” In Wright, Studies in Chinese Buddhism, edited by Robert M. Somers, 73-111. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. — 98

The Sui shu 隋書 attributes a Gao seng zhuan 高僧傳 to Sengyou 僧祐. No such notice appears in any Buddhist catalogues, and Wright argues that it was probably merely inferred that Sengyou wrote such a text from other parallels between his activities and those of Daoxuan 道宣.

Entry author: Michael Radich

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