Thông Biện (通辯) born Trí Không (d.1134) was a Vietnamese Buddhist historian and zen master whose recorded statements are the earliest written source for the history of Buddhism in Vietnam. He was a student of Viên Chiếu (圓照). He is mentioned in Lives of Eminent Zen Monks ( vi) (禪苑集英, 1337): The four monks mentioned are Mo Luo Qi Yu (Ma Ha Kỳ Vực)

Kang Senghui Kang Senghui (traditional: 康僧會; simplified: 康僧会; pinyin: Kāng Sēnghuì; Wade–Giles: K'ang Seng-hui; Vietnamese: Khương Tăng Hội; died 280) was a Buddhist monk and translator during the Three Kingdoms period of ancient C ...

(Khương Tăng Hội), Zhi Jiang Liang (Chi Cương Lương), and Mou Bo (Mâu Bác, i.e. :vi:Mâu Tử) author of the

Mouzi Lihuolun The ''Mouzi Lihuolun'' () is a classic Chinese Buddhist text. It comprises a purportedly autobiographical preface by Master Mou, a late 2nd-century Confucian scholar-official who converted to Buddhism, and an imaginary dialogue of questions and an ...

(Lý Hoặc Luận). The Queen Mother

Ỷ Lan Ỷ Lan ( Hán tự: 倚蘭, literally ''leaning on the orchid'', ?–1117) or Empress Mother Linh Nhân ( Vietnamese: ''Linh Nhân thái hậu'', Hán tự: 靈仁太后) was a Vietnamese regent, the imperial concubine of Lý Thánh T� ...

consulted the monk Thông Biện regarding the history of Buddhism in Vietnam in 1096 prior to her commencement of the plan to build 100 pagodas.David G. Marr, Anthony Crothers Milner ''Southeast Asia in the Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries'' 1986 Page 148 " Thông Biện's biography reveals that in 1096 he was consulted by the Queen Mother ( Ỷ Lan) for an explanation of the history of Buddhism in Vietnam; his answers to her questions reveal him as an impressive scholar."

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1134 deaths Vietnamese Zen Buddhists Zen Buddhism writers Year of birth unknown Lý dynasty Buddhist monks {{Vietnam-reli-bio-stub

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