釋氏稽古略 2.199

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2.199

*Biographies of Eminent Monks*: The Emperor of Liang ordered the Censor Pei Ziye to compile the *Biographies of Renowned Monks* in twenty fascicles. Śramaṇa Huijiao of Kuaiji wrote the *Biographies of Eminent Monks* in fourteen fascicles. Beginning in the Yongping reign era of the Han and ending in this year, spanning more than four hundred and fifty years in all, it treats two hundred and fifty-seven principal persons and includes over two hundred subsidiary persons. It was entered into the Great Canon and circulates (*Weijiang ji*).

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