Thiền uyển tập anh explained

Collection of Outstanding Figures of the Zen Garden (chữ Hán: 禪苑集英, Vietnamese: Thiền uyển tập anh) is a Literary Chinese Vietnamese Zen Buddhist biographical text dating to 1337.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} It connects the history of Buddhism in Vietnam with China and has aspects of a Dharma transmission text modelled on The Transmission of the Lamp genre.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Cuong Tu Nguyen, Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thiè̂n Uyẻ̂n Tập Anh
2. Philip Taylor, Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam, 2007 - Page 464
3. Thien Do, Vietnamese Supernaturalism: Views from the Southern Region, 2012, p. 34: "Thiền Uyển Tập Anh, the fourteenth century text on outstanding figures in Vietnamese Zen, mentions a conversation between a Buddhist monk and his master in the Lý era".
4. http://khoavanhoc-ngonngu.edu.vn/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2765%3Athin-uyn-tp-anh---trong-bi-cnh-vn-hoa-vn-hc-ong-a&catid=63%3Avn-hc-vit-nam&Itemid=106&lang=vi Thiền uyển tập anh 禪 苑集英 trong bối cảnh văn hóa - văn học Đông Á
5. 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