中国佛教，典籍浩繁，宗派林立，僧徒众多，出现了许多著名的高僧。从魏晋南北朝开始，就有僧徒着意搜集遗闻逸事，为这些高僧大德“树碑立传”，籍以弘扬佛法，这就是“僧传”。其中以梁释慧皎的《高僧传》、唐释道宣的《续高僧传》和宋释赞宁的《宋高僧传》最为著名，史称“? Chinese Buddhism, voluminous books, there are many sects, many monks, there have been many famous monks. From the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, monks deliberately collect anecdotes, for these monks Dad “dedication” to promote Buddhism, this is “monk Biography.” Among them, Liang Huihui Jiao’s “Biography of Monks”, Tang Daoist propaganda “Continued monk biography” and Song Yan Zanning’s “Biography of Song monks” the most famous, known as “?”