ABSTRACT

Completed in the Liáng (梁) dynasty (502–587 ce) in the year 519 ce, the 高僧傳 (gāosēngzhuàn; T50:2059) is considered to be the most accurate record of the lives of notable Buddhist monks and nuns up to the time it was written. It consists of fourteen fascicles and is divided into ten thematic sections. The text includes biographies of 257 monks and a few nuns. The three extracts in this unit are found at the beginning of the second fascicle in the first section, which concerns 譯經 ‘sutra translation’.