Sengyou

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Sengyou (僧祐) 445-518AD was a Buddhist monk, hailing from Nanjing, then called Jiankang (建康). He became a monk at 14 at which time he studied and eventually taught the Vinaya. He is the author of the “Collected Records on the Making of the Tripitaka” (Chu sanzang ji ji) a history of the early Buddhist texts.