Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.14

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Sun Simiao (?-682 CE) is the greatest physician of the traditional Chinese medicine. He was born in Jingzhao Huayuan (present-day Yao County, Shaanxi Province) and lived for more than 100 years, whose life story and achievements can be found in *Old Book of Tang*. He is widely known as one of the Three Medical Sages in China along with Zhang Zhongjing and Li Shizhen, one of the “Three Greatest Taoist Medical Scientists” with Ge Hong and Tao Hongjing as well as the King of Medicine with temples built all over the country for people to worship his contributions. His works absorbed a large scale of the essentials of ancient Indian medical and Buddhist knowledge, a vivid embodiment of influence of Indian medical science on traditional Chinese medicine.