Collection of Outstanding Figures of the Zen Garden (
Hán tự: 禪苑集英, vi, Thiền uyển tập anh) is a Chinese-language Vietnamese Buddhist biographical text dating to 1337. It connects the history of
Buddhism in Vietnam with China and has aspects of a
Dharma transmission text modelled on ''
The Transmission of the Lamp'' genre.
[Nguyen Cong Tu “Rethinking Vietnamese Buddhist History: Is the Thiền Uyển Tập Anh a ''Transmission of the Lamp'' Text? In ''Essays into Vietnamese Pasts'', edited by K.W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell]
References
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Vietnamese books
Zen texts
Vietnamese Buddhist texts
Trần dynasty literature
Chinese-language literature of Vietnam