''Fayuan Zhulin'' (; "Forest of Gems in the Garden of the
Dharma"), in 100 ''juan'' (卷 "volume", "fascicle"), is a
Buddhist
Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and ...
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.
It was used under the
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...
to reconstruct older
zhiguai
''Zhiguai xiaoshuo'', translated as "tales of the miraculous", "tales of the strange", or "records of anomalies", is a type of Chinese literature which appeared in the Han dynasty and developed after the fall of the dynasty in 220 CE and in the T ...
collections.
References
Further reading
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*Ong Hsu, Alexander (2018)
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
Chinese encyclopedias
Mahayana texts
Tang dynasty literature
Buddhist encyclopedias
7th-century Chinese books
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