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 Buddhism in Vietnam (''Đạo Phật'' 道佛 or ''Phật Giáo'' 佛教 in Vietnamese), as practiced by the ethnic Vietnamese, is mainly of the Mahayana tradition and is the main religion. Buddhism may have first come to Vietnam as early as the ...

with China and has aspects of a

Dharma transmission In Chan Buddhism, Chan and Zen Buddhism, dharma transmission is a custom in which a person is established as a "successor in an unbroken Lineage (Buddhism), lineage of teachers and disciples, a spiritual 'bloodline' (''kechimyaku'') theoretica ...

text modelled on ''

The Transmission of the Lamp ''The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp'' (), often referred to as ''The Transmission of the Lamp'', is a 30 volume work consisting of putative biographies of the Chan Buddhist and Zen Buddhist patriarchs and other prominent Buddhist ...

'' 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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thien Uyen Tap Anh Vietnamese books Zen texts Vietnamese Buddhist texts Trần dynasty literature Chinese-language literature of Vietnam