Raw data
"According to one account, the first ordination platform in China was erected in 434 at Nan-lin-ssu temple in Chien-k'ang [= modern Nanjing, Jiangsu - tmc]."
http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1627
"The first dual sangha ordination in which both bhikshus and bhikshunis participated took place in the 11th year of the Yong Jia era, 434 AD, in the Liu-Song Dynasty, with Indian Bhikshu Sanghavarman and Sri Lankan Bhikshuni Devasara and her colleagues granting the ordination. The ordination platform was located in Nanlin Temple. Ven. Huiguo, Ven. Jing-Yin, and three hundred others were fully re-ordained." Ben YIN (n.d.:1)
Input by: tmciolek Aug 07 2014
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 08 Aug 20014
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 2 km from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Nanlin monastery, CN
Lat 32.0774 Long 118.8047
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2013.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Nanlin monastery
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- China: Jiangsu Sheng
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- [missing data]
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx. Lat 32.0774 Long 118.8047 - based on visual identification of the possible site (a spot opposite of today's Nanlin Hotel in the centre of Nanjing) in maps/satellite imagery, maps.google.com - tmciolek, 08 Aug 2014.
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- Jiming Monastery
- Ch'in-liang Monastery
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Nan-ching - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/4/Nanjing.html
- Nan-ching-shih - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/4/Nanjing.html
- Nanking - http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/4/Nanjing.html
- Chien-k'ang http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1627
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx., Lat 32.0617 Long 118.7778 http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/4/Nanjing.html
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- Mahayana
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- [missing data]
11. Date-early
- [missing data]
0400-32p 0433-66c 0467-99p dated-x
12. Date-intermediate
- The first ordination platform in China was erected in 434 at Nan-lin-ssu temple - http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=1627
MBM chrono-tag 0433-66c - tmciolek 26 Oct 2012
13. Date-late
- [missing data]
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- [missing data]
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- [missing data]
16. Additional notes
- [missing data] (incl. details of the size of the monastic population)
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
18. Known monks and nuns associated with this monastery
- Sanghavarman ven-Sanghavarman - Ben YIN (n.d.:1)
- Devasara ven-Devasara - Ben YIN (n.d.:1)
- Huiguo [ven-Huiguo] - Ben YIN (n.d.:1)
- Jing-Yin [ven-Jingyin] - Ben YIN (n.d.:1)
- NNNN [ven-nnnn] - source
19. Available Printed Literature
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 1]
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 2]
- [bibliographical details of the Book/Article 3]
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