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Persons and Place Names

• Ānanda, Buddha's disciple, 133 n. 92

• Central Asia: and importance in spread of
  Buddhism, 117 n. 13

• Chang, Empress (Madame Ho), 26

• Chang, Lady, mother of prince of Lin-ch'uan,
  101

• Chang Chün, 94

• Chang Pien, governor of Yü-chang, 39

• Chang Tai, governor of I Province, 71

• Ch'ang-an: convents in, 6;

  • sacked by
    nomads, 3

• Ch'ao-ming, nun, 83-84

• Ch'ao-pien, Master of the Law, 59

• Chen Fa-ch'ung, governor of I Province,
  92

• Chiang, Madame, wife of Wang Lu:
  composed eulogy, 73

• Chieh-jen, nun, 101

• Chien-wen, emperor of Chin, 30

• Chih-hsien, nun, 21-23

• Chih-shan, monk of Kashmir, 18

• Chih-sheng, nun, 73-76

• Chih-yüeh, monk, 95-96

• Ching-ai, nun, 58

• Ching-ch'eng, nun, 48, 55-56

• Ching-chien, nun: as first Chinese Buddhist
  nun, 5, 17-19, 21, 62

• Ching-hsien, nun, 97-98

• Ching-hsing, nun, 99-100

• Ching-hsiu, nun, 10, 87-91, 101;

  • as
    Master of Meditation, 88;

  • sources and
    versions of, 109

• Ching-hui, nun, 78-79

• Ching-kuei, nun, 80-81;

  • and asceticism
    expressed in suicide by fire, 16

• Ching-lien, nun, 78

• Ching-yüan, nun, 98, 99

• Chou Ying, scholar, 106, 151 n. 103

• Ch'u, Empress, consort of K'ang, 28

• Ch'ü An-yüan, fortune-teller, 31

• Convent: Bamboo Garden, 61, 86, 99;

  • Bamboo Grove in Lo-yang, 18;

  • Bamboo
    Grove in Tung-hsiang of Shan-yang,
    55;

  • Beckoning Clarity, 106;

  • Black River, 30;

  • Brightness of Ch'i, 72,
    84, 86, 105;

  • Built by the Multitude, 70;

  • Capital Office, 95;

  • Central, 51;

  • Chu-ko
    Village, 45, 46;

  • Collected Goodness,
    82, 97;

  • Cowherd, 39;

  • Eastern, 29;

  • Eastern Green Garden, 78, 86, 97;

  • Empress Dowager, 41;

  • Empress Ho,
    26, 35, 100;

  • Establishing Blessings, 25,
    27, 38, 40-41, 71, 74;

  • Establishing
    Peace, 62, 69;

  • Establishing Splendor,
    44;

  • Eternal Blessings, 63;

  • Eternal
    Peace, 50, 58;

  • Eternal Sanctity, 70;

  • Expanding Nation, 44;

  • Field of Blessings,
    82;

  • Flower Garland, 72;

  • Flower
    Grove, 76;

  • Foundation for Meditation,
    76;

  • Founding of Wisdom, 21;

  • Great
    Mysterious Terrace, 42, 56;

  • Green
    Garden, 58, 77, 88, 89;

  • Increasing Joy,
    28;

  • Jeta Grove, 41;

  • Joyful Peace, 103;

  • Kingdom, 85;

  • Luminous Blessings, 36,
    53, 59, 62;

  • Meditation Grove, 89, 91,
    97, 101;

  • New Grove, 31;

  • North Peak,
    23;

  • Northern Everlasting Peace, 26;

  • Peak Mountain, 105;

  • Reflecting Brightness
    on White Mountain, 86;

  • Samantabhadra,
    78;

  • Simple Tranquility, 33;

  • Solitude, 102;

  • South, 48;

  • Southern
    Chin-ling, 100;

  • Southern Eternal
    Peace, 68, 85;

  • Southern Peace, 43;

  • Three-story, 60, 81;

  • Ti Mountain, 104;

  • Universal Wisdom, 62, 64;

  • Venerating
    Seculsion, 84;

  • Voice of the Teaching,
    79, 80, 84;

  • West, 21;

  • Western, 69;

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  • Western Green Garden, 103;

  • Wonderful
    Appearance, 76

• Fa-ch'eng, monk, 51

• Fa-ching, nun, 64

• Fa-ching, nun: and intrigue against government,
  86

• Fa-ch'üan, nun, 77;

  • as teacher of great
    influence, 16

• Fa-hsiang, nun, 56

• Fa-hsüan, nun, 105-106

• Fa-hui, Master of the Law, 95-96,
  146 n. 49

• Fa-lin, nun, 58

• Fa-pien, nun, 59-60;

  • excelled in meditation,
    16

• Fa-sheng, nun, 7, 38-39

• Fa-sheng, nun, 48-49

• Fa-tsang, nun, 84

• Fa-yen, nun, 77

• Fa-yin, Master of Meditation, 76, 77,
  101

• Fa-ying, Master of Monastic Rules, 63,
  88

• Fa-yüan, Master of Exegesis, 77, 78

• Fa-yüan, nun, 67-68;

  • sources and versions
    of, 109

• Feng, Nun, 95-96;

  • extract from Ming
    seng chuan, 107

• Fo-t'u-teng, foreign missionary monk
  from Kucha, 18, 20-21, 117 n. 10

• Fu Chien, emperor of Former Ch'in, 22,
  56

• Gunavarman, missionary monk from
  Central Asia, 36-37, 54, 62, 85, 89,
  128 n. 6

• Hsiao Chao-chou, Ch'i prince of Pa-ling,
  106

• Hsiao Ch'eng-chih, 43

• Hsiao I, prince of Yü-chang, 81

• Hsiao-wu, emperor of Chin, 31, 32, 33

• Hsiao-wu, emperor of Sung, 62, 91

• Hsiao Yüan-chien, Liang prince of Heng-yang,
  106

• Hsüan-ch'ang, Master of Meditation,
  82

• Hsüan-tsao, nun, 42

• Hua-kuang, nun, 95

• Huan Hsüan, 33-34

• Hui-chan, nun, 25, 27

• Hui-chi, Master of the Law, 106

• Hui-chih, monk, 43

• Hui-ch'iung, nun, 43-44;

  • incorrupt body
    of, 12, 44;

  • sources and versions of, 109

• Hui-chün, nun, 61

• Hui-hsi, Master of the Law, 106

• Hui-hsing, nun, 78

• Hui-hsü, nun, 81-83, 97

• Hui-hui, nun, 103-104

• Hui-i, Hui-kuo's disciple, 37-38

• Hui-k'ai, Hui-kuo's disciple, 37-38

• Hui-kao, nun, 98

• Hui-kuo, nun, 36-38, 59, 62-63

• Hui-li, nun, 101

• Hui-ming, Master of the Law, 79

• Hui-mu, nun, 45-48;

  • sources and versions
    of, 109

• Hui-sheng, nun, 96-97

• Hui-tz'u, Master of the Law, 103

• Hui-yao, nun, 65-66;

  • and suicide by fire,
    12, 65

• Hui-yin, nun, 104

• Hui-yü, nun, 39-40;

  • sources and versions
    of, 109

• Hui-yüan, monk, 34;

  • and Pure Land
    School, 127 n. 107

• I-k'ang, prince of P'eng-ch'eng, 85

• I-kung, prince of Chiang-hsia, 61

• India, 66;

  • nuns in, 37. See also
    Sanghavarman

• K'ang, emperor of Chin, 28

• Kashmir, 18, 90

• Kuang-ching, nun, 50-51

• Kuang-ching, nun, 79

• Kucha, 20, 95

• K'ung Hsi-hsien: and intrigue against
  government, 86

• K'ung Mo, provincial governor, 68, 70

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• Lin-ch'uan, prince of (Liu I-ch'ing), 101,
  149 n. 77

• Ling-hui, nun, 101

• Ling-pien, Yang. See Yang Ling-pien

• Ling-shou, nun, 20-21

• Ling-tsung, nun, 31

• Ling-yü, nun, 100-101

• Liu Ch'iu, appointed court scholar, 60

• Liu I-ch'ing, 101, 149 n. 77

• Liu Liang, 65;

  • as Taoist immortal,
    136 n. 131

• Lo-yang: convents in, 6;

  • sacked by
    nomads, 3;

  • translation center at, 2

• Mahāprajāpatī, the Buddha's stepmother:
  as first Buddhist nun in the world, 15,
  37;

  • taking eight special prohibitions, 54

• Ming, emperor of Chin, 30

• Ming, emperor of Sung, 62, 64, 70, 89, 98

• Ming-kan, nun, 24-25

• Miao-chih, nun, 72-73

• Miao-hsiang, nun, 23-24;

  • as teacher of
    great influence, 16

• Miao-wei, nun, 102-103

• Miao-yin, nun, 33-34, 111

• Monastery: Chaturdesha, 91;

  • Eminent
    Dais, 44;

  • Gold Flower, 95;

  • Grass Hall,
    97;

  • Grove of Concentration on Bell
    Mountain, 73;

  • Grove of the Way, 59,
    79;

  • Hedge Garden, 86;

  • North Chang,
    84;

  • P'eng-ch'eng, 40, 90;

  • Pottery
    Office, 40, 69, 73;

  • Prospering of Chin,
    63;

  • Sheh Mountain, 75;

  • Site of the
    Way, 38;

  • Six Prohibitions, 40;

  • Southern
    Establishing Joy, 40;

  • Southern
    Grove, 54, 63;

  • Spiritual Root, 97;

  • Splendidly Adorned, 74;

  • Upper Grove
    of Concentration on Bell Mountain,
    59, 75

• Mu, emperor of Chin, 26

• Nan-t'i, boat captain from Sri Lanka, 53,
  54

• Pao-ch'ang. See Shih Pao-ch'ang

• Pao-hsien, nun, 62-64

• Pao-liang, Master of the Law, 99

• Pao-ying, nun, 58

• Pao-yung, nun, 98

• P'eng-ch'eng: as early center of Buddhism,
  2, 116 n. 3

• P'u-chao, nun, 44-45

• P'u-ching, Seng-tuan's disciple, 50

• P'u-yao, Seng-tuan's disciple, 50, 68

• Sanghavarman, missionary monk from
  India, 38, 54, 63, 86, 128 n. 10

• Scythians, 19. See also Yüeh-chih

• Seng-chi, nun, 27-28;

  • maintaining chastity,
    16

• Seng-ching, nun, 69-70;

  • and eulogy by
    Shen Yüeh, 137 n. 13;

  • and source of
    eulogy, 109

• Seng-hua, nun, 61

• Seng-jou, Master of the Law, 103, 106

• Seng-kai, nun, 76-77

• Seng-kuo, nun, 53-55;

  • excelled in meditation,
    16

• Seng-lü, nun, 78

• Seng-mao, nun, 86

• Seng-meng, nun, 71

• Seng-nien, nun, 91-92

• Seng-pien, nun, 60

• Seng-shen, Master of Meditation, 76, 77,
  101

• Seng-shu, nun, 101-102

• Sen-tsung, Master of the Law, 74, 77, 99

• Seng-tuan, nun, 49-50;

  • maintaining
    chastity, 16

• Seng-yao, nun, 79

• Seng-yüan, Master of the Law, 75

• Seng-yüan, nun, 72

• Shan-miao, nun, 51-53;

  • and asceticism
    expressed in suicide by fire, 16

• Shao-ling, prince of, 100

• Shen Yu-chih, governor of Ching Province,
  81

• Shen Yüeh, 153 n. 24;

  • as author of a nun's
    biography, 109;

  • as author of a nun's
    eulogy, 70, 109, 137 n. 13

• Shih Hu, emperor of Latter Chao, 21

• Shih Lo, emperor of Latter Chao, 21

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• Shih Pao-ch'ang: access to nuns, 8;

  • comments
    in biographies, 36, 53, 83, 8586;

  • as compiler of Ching lü yi hsiang,
    108;

  • as compiler of Lives of the Nuns,
    1, 107;

  • as compiler of Ming seng chuan,
    107;

  • and reasons for compiling the
    Lives of the Nuns, 15-16

• Shūshō, Japanese monk, 107

• Sri Lanka: Buddhist nuns from, 53, 54,
  86

• T'an-ch'e, nun, 68-69

• T'an-chi, Master of the Law, 78, 103

• T'an-chien, nun, 79-80, 84

• T'an-hui, nun, 7, 92-95

• T'an-lan, nun: and intrigue against government,
  86

• T'an-mo-chieh-to, foreign monk, 19

• T'an-pei, nun, 26, 28

• T'an-pin, Master of the Law, 74, 103

• T'an-yin, Yeh-shou's disciple, 58-59

• T'an-yung, nun, 84-85

• Tao-chao, nun, 60

• Tao-ch'iung, nun, 7, 40-41

• Tao-hsing, nun, 29-30

• Taoist Master of Pure Water, 30

• Tao-jung, nun, 30-31;

  • sources and
    versions of, 109

• Tao-kuei, nun, 104-105

• Tao-shou, nun, 41

• Tao-tsung, nun, 60

• Tao-tzu, prince of Kuei-chi, 33

• Tao-yi, nun, 34-35

• Teh-leh, nun, 85-86, 105

• Te-sheng, nun, 83

• Tessara, nun from Sri Lanka, 54, 63, 70

• Wang Ch'en, 33-34

• Wang Kung, 33-34

• Wang Lun of Lang-yeh, 73

• Wang P'u-yang, Taoist master, 30

• Wang T'an-chih, 58

• Wen, emperor of Sung, 58, 62, 85, 86,
  91, 97

• Wen-hsüan, prince of Ching-ling, 70, 73,
  75, 77, 78, 79, 90, 92, 99, 102, 105

• Wen-hui, Ch'i heir apparent, 70, 74, 75,
  76, 78, 79, 90, 98, 102

• Wu, emperor of Ch'i, 73, 82

• Wu, emperor of Sung, 58

• Yang Ling-pien, Taoist murderess, 29-30

• Yeh-shou, nun, 57, 88

• Yin Chung-k'an, 34

• Yü Yung, scholar, 106

• Yüch-chih, 117 n. 13