A Study On The Biographies Of Eminent Monks

This work mainly concentrated at textual research of the Hui Jiao's the Biographies of Eminent Monks which including the study of the Process of Composing and the Comparison of different sources hoping inducing some kind of Characteristics. Furthermore ,the dissertation including a few Sociologyical study of the magical recording of the Biographies of Eminent Monks in order to get Objective view of this kind of religioous phenomenon.This dissertation is divided into a Introduction four chapters and three Appendix.The Introduction is divided into two sections, which first section discussing the problems such as the reasons the scope and the Purposes of the study .The second section is the study of Overview of the last century to find out the experiences for further studing.Chapter 1: Author of the Biographies of Eminent MonksThis chapter is divided into six sections .The first section investigates matters related to the author, in which most important is the study of Sengguo's postscript.The second section is the study of the Hui Jiao's works. The third section is the study of the writing time of the book.The forth section is the study of the special identity of Hui Jiao. The fifth section is the study of the mahayana background of the book.. The sixth section is the study of the southern academical Influences in the book..Chapter 2: Textual research of the Hui Jiao's the Biographies of Eminent MonksThis chapter is divided into five sections. .The first section investigates .the individual and religious reason of why Hui Jiao emphasize the headline should be eminet not be famous. The second section is the edition research of the book including the Tang Yong Tong's edition and the Gaoli's edition .This part of work is the basic study for the further research.The third and the forth section is the research of the bibliographical record and the volume detail of the book.The fifth section is the study of the structural rationality and the number of the every volume.The last section is the study of the name of the role of the book.Chapter 3:The Comparison between Hui Jiao's the Biographies of Eminent Monks and other biographical sourcesThis chater is the study based on the comparison between the Biographies of Eminent Monks and earlier individual biographies collective biographies and epitapes.This part of work utilizes textual analysis to get a panorama view of the buddhist record of that time.Chapter 4: Total comment on the Biographies of Eminent MonksThis chater is divided into four sections.The first section the historic study and castigate the sources of the book.The second section is the comparison between Hui Jiao's and Dao Xuan's the Biographies of Eminent Monks,to find out the influences of the Hui Jiao's book.The third section is the study of nontextual spreading of some factor of the book.The forth section is the research of the reason of the literatural and art success of the the Biographies of Eminent Monks.Appendix 1: This chapter use historical analysis in discussion of the background of history research of Hui Jiao'time,and the influences in the the Biographies of Eminent Monks.Appendix 2: This chapter is the study of the historical and geographical sources.Because of the factor that Hui Jiao have used a lot of historical and geographical sources to write his book,so comparison between some historical and geographical works is made in this chapter.Appendix 3: This chapter is planed part of the work of sociological anthropological study on the Biographies of Eminent Monks which mainly based on the research of magic and anthropological meaning of such kind behavior.Another aspect of study is the research of the classification of these magic.