Fayuan Zhulin Explained

Fayuan Zhulin (; "Forest of Gems in the Garden of the Dharma"), in 100 juan (卷 "volume", "fascicle"), is a Buddhist encyclopedia 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.^[1] It was used under the Ming Dynasty to reconstruct older zhiguai collections.

Further reading

• Book: Daoshi (道世) . Shinohara . Koichi, transl. . A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume I . 2019 . Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai . Moraga, Cal. . 978-1-886439-71-9 .
• Book: Daoshi (道世) . Shinohara . Koichi, transl. . A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume II . 2019 . Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai . Moraga, Cal. . 978-1-886439-73-3 .
• Book: Daoshi (道世) . Shinohara . Koichi, transl. . A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume III . 2020 . Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai . Moraga, Cal. . 978-1-886439-74-0.
• 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

• Fayuan Zhulin CBETA (Chinese)

Notes and References

1. Book: Buswell. Robert Jr. Lopez. Donald S. Jr.. Robert Buswell Jr.. Donald S. Lopez, Jr.. Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.. 2013. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ. 9780691157863.