Dao Xuan

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Dao Xuan(Chinese:道宣, AD 596-667) was the early Tang Dynasty author of a Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction, a Chinese language text advocating Buddhist temple-design along traditional Chinese architectural lines. He also compiled the Xu Gaoseng zhuan A Continuation of Biographies of Eminent Monks, compilation of hagiographies of Chinese Buddhists. Dao Xuan also wrote the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks (Chinese:续高僧传, pinyin: xu gaoseng chuan. AD 645) which describes an Indian monk who travelled across the Himalaya mountain range to teach Hinayana (Xiao Sheng) Buddhism in China.[1]