''Fayuan Zhulin'' (; "Forest of Gems in the Garden of the
Dharma
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"), in 100 ''juan'' (卷 "volume", "fascicle"), is a
Buddhist
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encyclopedia
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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
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to reconstruct older
zhiguai 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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