Fei Changfang (; fl. 562–598) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, biographer, and bibliographer, from

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

. He began as a scholar of the Chinese classics of

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and

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, but was converted to Buddhism and became involved in translation work with various Indian monks at the

Daxingshan Temple Daxingshan Temple () is a Buddhist temple located in Yanta District of Xi'an, Shaanxi. The temple had reached unprecedented heyday in the Tang dynasty (618–907), when Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra taught Chinese Esoteric Bud ...

. He is known for his catalogue of Buddhist texts ''Records of the Three Treasuries Throughout Successive Dynasties'' (; T2034), compiled 597 CE, which was influential in the development of the Chinese Buddhist

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, however he has come to be known for controversially attributing texts to translators without foundation.Tokuno 1990: 44-45.

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Bibliography

* Tokuno, Kyoko. 1990. 'The Evaluation of Indigenous Scriptures in Chinese Buddhist Bibliographical Catalogues' in ''Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha'', edited by Robert E Buswell. University of Hawaii Press, 31–74. Northern Zhou Buddhists Northern and Southern dynasties Buddhist monks Chinese bibliographers Sui dynasty Buddhist monks Sui dynasty historians Writers from Chengdu Chinese spiritual writers Historians from Sichuan {{Buddhist-clergy-stub