# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/huiyuan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:35.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/huiyuan"
name: "Huiyuan"
slug: "huiyuan"
description: "Lushan Huiyuan, meaning \"Huiyuan of Mount Lu\", was a Chinese Buddhist teacher who founded Donglin Temple at the foot of Mount Lu in Jiujiang city region and wrote the text On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in 404 AD. He was born in Shanxi province but moved to Jiujiang, where he died in 416. Although he was born in the north, he moved south to live within the bounds of the Eastern Jin Dynasty."
tagline: "Chinese Buddhist monk (334–416)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hui_Yuan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "334"
deathDate: "416"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.448332422088573
  historical:           20.60212933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Huiyuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump