Notable people
27 peopleFigures with the most linked events, works and records.
Clerics
Religious Figure
Religious figures who founded schools, taught, translated scripture and led monasteries and temples
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Mural guide
In a temple courtyard at dusk, a great bronze bell hangs at the right and incense smoke rises from a bronze urn; monks in orange robes and plainly dressed visitors walk toward a lamplit hall, lotus flowers bloom in a stone basin, and a gold prayer wheel stands at the left.
Religious figures are people who founded schools, taught doctrine, translated scriptures, led monasteries and temples or were known for religious practice, including Buddhist monks, Daoist masters, and foreign monks and missionaries who came to China. Their lives are recorded in monastic biographies, Daoist texts, inscriptions and travel writings; where a story contains legend, it is marked as tradition. This role covers only their religious work; other careers appear under the matching roles.
People in this role
- Kasyapa Matanga1 CE–73 CE
- Dharmaratna1 CE–75 CE
- Wei BoyangDates unknown; traditionally placed under Emperor Huan of Eastern Han (147–167 CE)
- Mou RongDates unknown; lived at the end of the Eastern Han (late 2nd century CE)
- Zhu FahuDates disputed; translated scriptures from 266 to 308 under Western Jin and died aged 78
- Ge Hong283 CE–343 CE (by another account died aged 81)
- Huiyuan334 CE–416 CE
- Kumarajiva (Jiumoluoshi)c. 344 CE–c. 413 CE
- Kou Qianzhi365 CE–448 CE
- Dharmaksema (Tan Wuchen)385 CE–433 CE
- Tan Yao405 CE–475 CE
- Baozhi418 CE–514 CE
- SanghasenaDates unknown; Indian monk of the 5th century CE; his Hundred Parables was translated into Chinese in 492
- Tang HuixiuDates unknown; active in the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song (454-464 CE)
- Tao Hongjing456 CE–536 CE (birth by another account 452)
- SengbianBirth date unknown; died 493 CE
- Huijiao497–554
- ZhiyongDates unknown; active in the Chen and Sui dynasties
- Xuanzangc. 602 CE–664 CE (birth by another account 600)
- Shenxiuc. 606 CE–706 CE
- Huilib. 615; death date unknown, before 688
- Feng GanDates unknown; Tang monk of Mount Tiantai
- Huineng638 CE–713 CE
- Fa Cang643 CE–712 CE
- Sima Chengzhen647–735 CE
No people in this role for that dynasty.