Biography or Hagiography: The Story of Sengya 僧崖 in the <i>Continuing Biographies of Eminent Monks</i>
This paper examines how Daoxuan 道宣, the Tang Dynasty Buddhist historian and founder of the Nanshan Vinaya School, meticulously constructed the saintly image of Sengya 僧崖—a monk renowned for his auto-cremation—in his <i>Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks</i> (<i>Xu gaoseng zhuan...
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MDPI AG
2025-04-01
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