# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guifeng-zongmi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:09.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guifeng-zongmi"
name: "Guifeng Zongmi"
slug: "guifeng-zongmi"
description: "Guifeng Zongmi was a Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar who is considered a patriarch of both the Huayan school and Chan Buddhism. Zongmi wrote a number of works on several Mahayana Sutras, Chan and Huayan, and he also discussed Taoism and Confucianism. His works are a major source for studying the various Chan schools of the Tang."
tagline: "Buddhist scholar-monk, patriarch of Huayan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guifeng-Zongmi-286x300.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "780"
deathDate: "841"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             0.1023890784982935
  historical:           7.431968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%AD%E5%B3%B0%E5%AE%97%E5%AF%86"
    title: "圭峰宗密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifeng_Zongmi"
    title: "Guifeng Zongmi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongmi"
    title: "Zongmi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%AD%E5%B3%B0%E5%AE%97%E5%AF%86"
    title: "圭峰宗密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B7%9C%EB%B4%89%EC%A2%85%EB%B0%80"
    title: "규봉종밀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifeng_Zongmi"
    title: "Guifeng Zongmi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifeng_Zongmi"
    title: "Guifeng Zongmi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khu%C3%AA_Phong_T%C3%B4ng_M%E1%BA%ADt"
    title: "Khuê Phong Tông Mật"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181701"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump