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    Bodhidharma is The Record of the Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang (Chinese: 洛陽伽藍 Luòyáng Qiélánjì) which was compiled in 547 by Yang Xuanzhi (楊衒之), a writer...
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    recorded in a Northern Wei text, Description of Buddhist Temples in Luoyang (洛陽伽藍), that a parade for a statue of Buddha of a temple was led by a lion to...
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  • History of the Temples of Luoyang or Record of the Monasteries of Luoyang (t 《洛陽伽藍》, s 《洛阳伽蓝记》, Luòyáng Qiélánjì or Qiélán Jì) in 547. This text relates the...
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    Compare the account in Yang Xuanzhi's (6th-century) Luoyang qielan ji 洛陽伽藍, tr. by Ulrich Theobald. Tr. by Zürcher (2007), p. 24. Draft translation...
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