五灯会元 / 中.Wu deng hui yuan / Zhong.

This book including Transmission of the Lamp, Tiansheng Era Expanded Lamp Record, Chienchung the Renewal Lamp to Record, Essential Materials from the Chan Schools Successive Lamp Records and Comprehensive Record of the (transmission of) the Lamp from the Jiatai Era assemblies the narrations and stories about religious doctrines of different Chan schools from Seven-Buddha(including Sakyamuni) to the Tang and Song dynasties. It is an important material for the research on Buddhist Chan Sect.