]> 2026-10-16T13:30:00-04:00 People/Daosheng 0 en Daosheng (Chinese: 道生; pinyin: Dàoshēng; Wade–Giles: Tao Sheng), or Zhu Daosheng (Chinese: 竺道生; Wade–Giles: Chu Tao-sheng), was an eminent Six Dynasties era Chinese Buddhist scholar. He is known for advocating the concepts of sudden enlightenment and the universality of the Buddha nature. Born in Pengcheng, Daosheng left home to become a monk at eleven. He studied in Jiankang under Zhu Fatai, and later at Lushan (Mount Lu) monastery with Huiyuan, and from 405 or 406 under Kumārajīva in Chang'an, where he stayed for some two years perfecting his education. He became one of the foremost scholars of his time, counted among the "fifteen great disciples" of Kumārajīva. Sengzhao reports that Daosheng assisted Kumārajīva in his translation of the ''Lotus Sutra'', Daosheng wrote commentaries on the ''Lotus Sutra'', the ''Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra'' and the ''Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra'' (the last of which has been lost). In 408, he returned to Lushan, and in 409 back to Jiankang, where he remained for some twenty years, staying at the Qingyuan Monastery (青园寺) from 419. Daosheng controversially ascribed Buddha-nature to the icchantikas, based on his reading on a short version of the ''Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra'', which in that short form appears to deny the Buddha-nature to icchantikas; the long version of the ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'', however (not yet known to Daosheng), explicitly includes the icchantikas in the universality of the Buddha-nature. Daosheng's bold doctrine of including icchantikas within the purview of the Buddha-nature, even before that explicit teaching had actually been found in the long ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'', led to the expulsion of Daosheng from the Buddhist community in 428 or 429, and he retreated to Lushan in 430. With the availability of the long ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'' after 430, through the translation of Dharmakshema, Daosheng was vindicated and praised for his insight. He remained in Lushan, composing his commentary on the ''Lotus Sūtra'' in 432, until his death in 434. Daosheng's exegesis of the ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'' had an enormous influence on interpretations of the Buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism that prepared the ground for the Chán school emerging in the 6th century.<br>([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daosheng Source Accessed Sept. 2 2020]) ''Dates from The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton University Press, 2014)'' PengchengJulu in present-day Hebei province false false false Person false false false false People File:Daosheng-Wikipedia.png https://commons.tsadra.org/images/7/7d/Daosheng-Wikipedia.png true true true File:Daosheng-Wikipedia.png File:Daosheng-Wikipedia.png Daosheng;道生;Daosheng false 道生 Dōshō Tosaeng Daosheng Daosheng-Wikipedia.png Daosheng 道生 Classical Chinese Authors and Ordained (Monks and Nuns) Daosheng Huiyan Kumārajīva Classical Daosheng (Chinese: 道生; pinyin: Dàoshēng; Wade–Giles: Tao Sheng), or Zhu Daosheng (Chinese: 竺道生; Wade–Giles: Chu Tao-sheng), was an eminent Six Dynasties era Chinese Buddhist scholar. He is known for advocating the concepts of sudden enlightenment and the universality of the Buddha nature. Born in Pengcheng, Daosheng left home to become a monk at eleven. He studied in Jiankang under Zhu Fatai, and later at Lushan (Mount Lu) monastery with Huiyuan, and from 405 or 406 under Kumārajīva in Chang'an, where he stayed for some two years perfecting his education. He became one of the foremost scholars of his time, counted among the "fifteen great disciples" of Kumārajīva. Sengzhao reports that Daosheng assisted Kumārajīva in his translation of the ''Lotus Sutra'', Daosheng wrote commentaries on the ''Lotus Sutra'', the ''Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra'' and the ''Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra'' (the last of which has been lost). In 408, he returned to Lushan, and in 409 back to Jiankang, where he remained for some twenty years, staying at the Qingyuan Monastery (青园寺) from 419. Daosheng controversially ascribed Buddha-nature to the icchantikas, based on his reading on a short version of the ''Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra'', which in that short form appears to deny the Buddha-nature to icchantikas; the long version of the ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'', however (not yet known to Daosheng), explicitly includes the icchantikas in the universality of the Buddha-nature. Daosheng's bold doctrine of including icchantikas within the purview of the Buddha-nature, even before that explicit teaching had actually been found in the long ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'', led to the expulsion of Daosheng from the Buddhist community in 428 or 429, and he retreated to Lushan in 430. With the availability of the long ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'' after 430, through the translation of Dharmakshema, Daosheng was vindicated and praised for his insight. He remained in Lushan, composing his commentary on the ''Lotus Sūtra'' in 432, until his death in 434. Daosheng's exegesis of the ''Nirvāṇa Sūtra'' had an enormous influence on interpretations of the Buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism that prepared the ground for the Chán school emerging in the 6th century.<br>([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daosheng Source Accessed Sept. 2 2020]) ''Dates from The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton University Press, 2014)'' Daosheng;;;Daosheng;;; ; ; 355 434 2020-09-02T21:52:50Z 2459095.4116898 2020-09-23T21:19:16Z 2459116.3883796 false People/Daosheng 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Daosheng]] People/Daosheng# QUERY87c2d978edcc056fca4772c154c7196a 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Daosheng]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Daosheng||People/Daosheng]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Daosheng]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Daosheng# QUERYaa93f5649a57eeb4553f59f57261eb35 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Daosheng]] People/Daosheng# QUERY54da973e426a49ef57458f5472cb1704 0 0 template 1 [[:Articles/A History of Buddha-Nature Theory: The Literature and Traditions]] People/Daosheng# QUERYdb8cd16640f8466d4495ba8c37bc5797 Books/Sudden and Gradual 0 en Sudden and Gradual Books/Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra 0 en Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra Books/Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-Sūtra: A Study and Translation 0 en Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-Sūtra: A Study and Translation Articles/The Mahāparinirvāṇa-Sūtra and Its Earliest Interpreters in China: Two Prefaces by Tao-lang and Tao-sheng 0 en The Mahāparinirvāṇa-Sūtra and Its Earliest Interpreters in China: Two Prefaces by Tao-lang and Tao-sheng Books/Thought of Buddha Nature as Depicted in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra 0 en Thought of Buddha Nature as Depicted in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra Books/Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra 0 en Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra Daosheng 0 en Daosheng BuNayTopicTags 102 en BuNayTopicTags BuNayAuthor 102 en BuNayAuthor REDI 102 en REDI