Notable people
21 peopleFigures with the most linked events, works and records.
People
Clerics
Religious figures who founded schools, taught, translated scripture, led temples and shaped communities of believers
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Mural guide
A mountain monastery in morning mist: a long stone stair climbs to a gateway with plain white streamers, a many-storeyed pagoda and a bell pavilion stand to the left, and a few monks in saffron robes climb the stair, one carrying scrolls on a pole.
This group holds religious figures: people in the Buddhist, Daoist and other traditions who founded schools, taught the doctrine, translated scriptures, led monasteries and temples, or were known for their practice. Their lives are recorded in biographies of eminent monks, Daoist texts and inscriptions; they often dealt with secular politics and scholarship, but this group looks at their religious work.