The ''Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall'' () is a

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text compiled by two Chinese Buddhist monks in 952 during the

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. It is the oldest existing collection of

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encounter dialogues, dating from about half a century before the much better-known ''

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''. After being lost for centuries, it was rediscovered by Japanese scholars in the 20th century at the

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temple in

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, in a complete form with all twenty chapters. The text survived in the form of printing plates made during the 13th century, and not as a printed book. Much like other Chan Buddhist texts, it is written in the form of daily conversations between masters and students or between students themselves. The ''Anthology'' is particularly important for the study of the

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, as it contains what is believed to be a good record of what vernacular northern Chinese speech was like in the 10th century. An example of a grammatical phenomenon in the text is the use of 也 ''yě'' as a marker of the perfect, showing a coalescence of the Classical Chinese particles 也 ''yě'' and 矣 ''yǐ''. :僧問居此多少年也。 :''sēng wèn jū cǐ duōshǎo nián yě'' :monk ask live

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more-less year PRF :'The monk asked how many years you've lived here.' (book 4 86.5)

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* * {{cite book, last=Yanagida, first=Seizan, year=1980, title=Sodöshü sakuin (An index to Zutangji), publisher=Research Institute of Humanities, Kyoto University, location=Kyoto Zen texts 10th-century Chinese books Chinese Buddhist texts Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms literature

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