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38: 153: 734: 963:(424–453) of the Liu-Song. He was the son of Qian Shen 錢申, a high official at the Chen court acting as Director at the Ministry of Personnel (shangshu libu 尚書吏部). When the Sui took power, Daoxuan's family, alongside the families of many other Chen officials, were sent to the new capital in northwest China, a scene poignantly alluded to in the 999:
Zanning wrote that Daoxuan was intellectually precocious, reading broadly and capable of composing verse by the age of nine. This mark of genius indicates, if anything, that he was brought up in a wealthy family that had the means to invest in his education. At the age of fifteen, as Daoxuan showed a
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This move to the north most likely took place before he was born and he would have therefore grown up in Daxing cheng, not Wuxing. However, because his family came from the south, culturally Daoxuan remained a southerner. The difference between northerners and southerners would shape Daoxuan's who,
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When I was young, I delighted in learning many from those texts that draw out rare and extraordinary . The Soushen investigates the supernormal, the Mingxiang , the Mingbao , the Jingyi the Shuyi , tales of anomalies that record the unseen, have read through them
931:). He was born to the Qian 錢 family and his mother was of the Yao 姚 family, two prominent clans hailing from the region of the lower Yangtze river basin (Jiangnan 江南). Daoxuan's origins differ depending on the sources. The 888:
helped to define the shape of the Chinese Buddhist Canon in future years. Influenced by the apocalyptic Mo-fa or theory of the end of the Dharma, Daoxuan was particularly concerned to expose and denounce suspicious
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fondness for Buddhist teaching and an aversion to worldly matters, he joined the monastic order. Under the tutelage of Huiyun 慧頵 (564–637) at Riyan Monastery 日嚴寺, he began his practice and was, according to the
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Daoxuan is also noted for his admonishments to the Emperor Gaozong of the Tang for issuing an edict requiring that monastics bow before the emperor. His petition succeeded in the cancellation of that edict.
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Chen Jinhua (2002). An Alternative View of the Meditation Tradition in China: Meditation in the Life and Works of Daoxuan (596–667), T'oung Pao, Second Series, 88, (4/5), 332–395
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city, Zhejiang. A good argument has been made for his birth place being Jingzhao 京兆, also known as Chang'an, where his father probably emigrated in the 580s. According to the
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Daoxuan wrote five commentaries on the four-part Vinaya known as the Five Great Works of Mount Zhongnan. He was also part of the translation team that assisted
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In Daoxuan's preface to his interview with the spirits, he wrote how from a young age he was interested in tales of the supernormal, recounting that:
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according to Chen Huaiyu, put much stock in the cultural superiority of the south as he himself tried to develop Buddhism in the northern capital.
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Tokuno, Kyoko (1990). "The Evaluation of Indigenous Scriptures in Chinese Buddhist Bibliographical Catalogues". In Buswell, Robert E (ed.).
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Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770
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The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel: Aspects of the Relationship Between the Buddhist Saṃgha and the State in Chinese History
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This article is about the historical Tang dynasty Buddhist monk. For the eighth-century Vinaya master who traveled to Japan, see
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When the Sui had overcome the Chen, the entire kingdom's , heads bared and hands bound, were moved west .
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Daoxuan was born in 596, probably in the Sui capital of Daxing cheng 大興城, later renamed
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Daoxuan was an influential cataloguer. His catalogue of Buddhist scriptures, the
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is also notable for being the first bibliographical work to attribute the
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monk. He is perhaps best known as the patriarch of the four-part
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The life of Daoxuan: according to others and his own words
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states that he was from either Dantu 丹徒 in present-day
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Dreams in Further Biographies of Eminent Monks (續高僧傳)
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Dao-xuan

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Chang'an
Shaanxi
Buddhism
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Dharmaguptaka
a series
Buddhism

Glossary
Index
Outline
History
Timeline
The Buddha
Pre-sectarian Buddhism
Councils
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Decline in the Indian subcontinent
Later Buddhists
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Four Noble Truths
Noble Eightfold Path
Dharma wheel
Five Aggregates

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