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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;

      • 182

    • 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

    • 183

  • 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

    • 184

  • 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

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