Kang Senghui (traditional:
康僧會; simplified:
康僧会; pinyin: Kāng Sēnghuì; Wade–Giles: K'ang Seng-hui;[1] Vietnamese: Khương Tăng Hội; died 280) was a
Buddhist monk and translator during the
Three Kingdoms period of ancient
China. He was born in
Jiaozhi (modern-day northern
Vietnam).[2][3] He was the son of a
Sogdian merchant, hence the last name of Kang, meaning "one whose forefathers had been people from
Kangju", or Sogdia.[4] Kang received a Chinese literary education and was "widely read in the
six (Confucian) classics."[5] He also read
Sanskrit and was known for his knowledge of the
Tripiṭaka (the Buddhist canon).[6] He joined the saïgha (the Buddhist monastic order) as a teenager, following the death of his parents.[6] Kang contributed more to the diffusion of
Buddhistsutras as a preacher than to their translation into the
Chinese language as there are only two collections of avadānas in the canon which are attributed to him.[7] According to legend, the first Buddha relic in China appeared in a vase in 248 C.E. so that Kang Senghui would have something to show a local ruler. [8]Sun Quan, the king of
Eastern Wu, would unsuccessfully attempt to destroy the tooth by subjecting it to various tests. [9]
Kang is known as Khương Tăng Hội in Vietnam[10][11] and
Thông Biện (1096) claims scriptural traditions from Kang influenced Vietnamese Buddhism, though there is no independent evidence for this tradition.[12]
Khương Tăng Hội is regarded as the first Vietnamese patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Vietnam.[3]
^Zurcher, E. (Erik) (2007). The Buddhist conquest of China : the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early medieval China (3rd ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 23.
ISBN9789047419426.
OCLC646789866.
^Zurcher, E. (Erik) (2007). The Buddhist conquest of China : the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early medieval China (3rd ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 47.
ISBN9789047419426.
OCLC646789866.
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abZurcher, E. (Erik) (2007). The Buddhist conquest of China : the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early medieval China (3rd ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 51.
ISBN9789047419426.
OCLC646789866.
^Zurcher, E. (Erik) (2007). The Buddhist conquest of China : the spread and adaptation of Buddhism in early medieval China (3rd ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 53.
ISBN9789047419426.
OCLC646789866.
^Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts - Page 88 Keith Weller Taylor, John K. Whitmore - 1995 "Note also in this connection that, in 1096, Thông Biện, who could be considered responsible for the historical typology of Buddhism in Viet Nam, vaguely ascribed scriptural traditions to
Mou Bo and Kang Senghui.21 Yet, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any genealogy or doctrinal school that could be traced back to these two figures. Needless to say, neither Mou Bo nor.."