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]
Thiền uyển tập anh (禪苑集英)
Portraits of three patriarchs of the Trúc Lâm Buddhist school in the book Thiền uyển tập anh, include: Trần Nhân Tông, Huyền Quang and Pháp Loa
References
edit- ^ Cuong Tu Nguyen, Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thiè̂n Uyẻ̂n Tập Anh
- ^ Philip Taylor, Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam, 2007 - Page 464
- ^ 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".
- ^ Thiền uyển tập anh 禪 苑集英 trong bối cảnh văn hóa - văn học Đông Á
- ^ 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