Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s1.t1.4

v2.c10.s1.t1.4

Zhiguai Xiaoshuo in Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties often copied stories from Buddhist scriptures or made a few alterations and then turned them into Chinese tales. “Parrot and Fire”, a tale in *Xuanyan Ji*, was directly taken from the *Old Miscellaneous Avadana*. Linggui Zhi contains a tale of a “foreign preacher” and Xu Qixie Ji has a story about “a scholar of Yangxian”. They are much the same, and all adapted from the tale of “Brahmin and Pot” in the *Old Miscellaneous Avadana*. Similar cases are many and can be used for comparative study of Chinese and Indian literature.