| Identifier | [None] |
| Title | Gao seng zhuan 高僧傳 [Wright 1990] |
| Date | [None] |
| Author | Yu Xiaojing 虞孝敬 [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. — 98-99 |
The Sui shu 隋書, Xin Tang shu 新唐書 and Jiu Tang shu 舊唐書 all mention a supposed Gao seng zhuan 高僧傳 by Yu Xiaojing 虞孝敬, who was a secretary under Prince Xiangdong 相東王 (later Liang Yuandi 梁元帝, r. 552-555), and then entered orders and took the name of Huiming 惠命 or Huimin 惠敏. The Si ku quan shu editors then state that Huijiao 慧皎 took this work as a model. Wright argues that this notice is mistaken. Huijiao’s 慧皎 preface to his own Gao seng zhuan 高僧傳 suggests that he thought himself the first to use this title. There exists a citation from a Gao shi zhuan 高士傳 by Yu Xiaojing, and Wright suggests that the Sui shu editors got confused, created a ghost double of this secular work and listed it as Gao seng zhuan under Buddhist works, and this led to further confusion and misinformation in the later tradition. Entry author: Michael Radich |
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