A collective name for four major historical works detailing the lives of prominent Buddhist monks across different periods of Chinese history

A collection of biographies of famous Buddhist monks from the Eastern Han to the early Liang Dynasty, compiled by Huijiao in the 6th century. It is the first of the four major biographical works of its kind, together known as the [[四朝高僧传|四朝高僧傳|si4 chao2 gao1 seng1 zhuan4]].

travelogue of the monk Faxian's journey to India during the Jin Dynasty, describing Buddhist sites and the state of the religion in Central and South Asia