The Great Tang Biographies of Eminent Monks who Sought the Dharma in the Western Regions 大唐西域求法高僧傳

Composed by Yijing

Colophon

第 51 冊　No. 2066 大唐西域求法高僧傳 唐 義淨撰 共 2 卷 Volume 51, No. 2066; Da Tang Xi Yu Qiu Fa Gao Seng Zhuan; The Great Tang Biographies of Eminent Monks who Sought the Dharma in the Western Regions; Composed by Yijing in the Tang in 2 scrolls

Notes

Date 700-711 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 1072')

English translations

Lahiri, Latika 1986, Chinese Monks in India: Biography of Eminent Monks who Went to the Western World in Search of the Law during the Great T'ang Dynasty, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Primary Source

Yijing, 《大唐西域求法高僧傳》 'The Great Tang Biographies of Eminent Monks who Sought the Dharma in the Western Regions,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 51, No. 2066, Accessed 2016-10-30, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T51n2066.

References

  1. Lancaster, L.R. 2004. The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.

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