Fayuan Zhulin

Fayuan Zhulin (Chinese: 法苑珠林; pinyin: Fǎyuàn Zhūlín; "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. It was used under the Ming Dynasty to reconstruct older zhiguai collections.

Further reading

• Daoshi (道世); Shinohara, Koichi, transl. (2019). A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume I (PDF). Moraga, Cal.: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai. ISBN 978-1-886439-71-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Daoshi (道世); Shinohara, Koichi, transl. (2019). A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume II (PDF). Moraga, Cal.: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai. ISBN 978-1-886439-73-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Daoshi (道世); Shinohara, Koichi, transl. (2020). A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden, volume III. Moraga, Cal.: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai. ISBN 978-1-886439-74-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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)