Fayuan Zhulin
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Fayuan Zhulin ({{zh|c=法苑珠林|p=Fǎyuàn Zhūlín}}; "Forest of Gems in the Garden of the Dharma"), in 100 juan (卷 "volume", "fascicle"), is a Buddhist encyclopedia compiled AD 668 by Daoshi (道世). It comprises Buddhist and other ancient texts otherwise lost, and is thus an important source for the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism.{{cite book|editor1-last=Buswell|editor1-first=Robert Jr|editor2-last=Lopez|editor2-first=Donald S. Jr.|editor1-link=Robert Buswell Jr.|editor2-link=Donald S. Lopez, Jr.|title=Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=9780691157863}}
It was used under the Ming Dynasty to reconstruct older zhiguai collections.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Daoshi (道世) |last2=Shinohara |first2=Koichi, transl. |title=A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume I |date=2019 |publisher=Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai |location=Moraga, Cal. |isbn=978-1-886439-71-9 |url=https://bdkamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/dBET_T2122_Forest-of-Pearls01_2019.pdf}}
- {{cite book |last1=Daoshi (道世) |last2=Shinohara |first2=Koichi, transl. |title=A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume II |date=2019 |publisher=Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai |location=Moraga, Cal. |isbn=978-1-886439-73-3 |url=https://bdkamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dBET_T2122_Forest-of-Pearls02_2019.pdf}}
- {{cite book |last1=Daoshi (道世) |last2=Shinohara |first2=Koichi, transl. |title=A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume III |date=2020 |publisher=Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai |location=Moraga, Cal. |isbn= 978-1-886439-74-0|url=https://bdkamerica.org/product/a-forest-of-pearls-from-the-dharma-garden-volume-iii/}}
- Ong Hsu, Alexander (2018). [https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/395 Practices of Scriptural Economy: Compiling and Copying a Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Anthology], dissertation, University of Chicago
- Teiser, S. F. (1985). T'ang Buddhist Encyclopedias:an Introduction to Fa-Yüan Chu-Lin and Chu-Ching Yao-Chi, Tang Studies, 1985:3, 109–128, DOI: 10.1179/tng.1985.1985.3.109
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150923195017/http://www.buddhist-canon.com/REF/misc/T53N2122.htm Fayuan Zhulin CBETA (Chinese)]
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Category:Chinese encyclopedias
Category:Tang dynasty literature
Category:Buddhist encyclopedias
Category:7th-century Chinese books
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