Research On ZanNing And Buddhist Biography Of Song Dynasty

The paper focuses on ZanNing and the text of Buddhist Biography of Song Dynasty. First chapter, I will give a simple description of ZanNing and his life, and then to check that whether those works written by ZanNing are still survival. Second chapter , based on the text of Buddhist Biography of Song Dynasty, I'll give a statistical description of homeplace and preaching place of those buddhists, in order to get a clear proportion of the distribution of their homeplace and preaching place in Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. Third chapter, researching on the works recorded in Buddhist Biography of Song Dynasty, I'll offer the situation of survival of those works, to get a result whether those works are still in currense.