# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sengzhao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:29:58.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sengzhao"
name: "Sengzhao"
slug: "sengzhao"
description: "Sengzhao was a Chinese Buddhist philosopher from Later Qin. Born to a poor family in Jingzhao, he acquired literary skills, apparently including the capacity to read Pali, and became a scribe. This exposed him to a variety of uncommon documents. He was influenced by Taoists, Laozi and Zhuangzi, and although we are told he enjoyed Lao Tzu’s Daodejing, he was overjoyed when he discovered the Vimalakirti Sutra. This encounter transformed his life and he became a Buddhist. He was known as being among the ablest of the disciples of Kumārajīva."
tagline: "Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "384"
deathDate: "414"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.56440133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "僧肇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "سينجزهاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengzhao"
    title: "Sengzhao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengzhao"
    title: "Sengzhao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengzhao"
    title: "Sengzhao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengzhao"
    title: "Sengzhao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%93ngzh%C3%A0o"
    title: "Sēngzhào"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%83%A7%E8%82%87"
    title: "僧肇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%B9%EC%A1%B0"
    title: "승조"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%93ngzh%C3%A0o"
    title: "Sēngzhào"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengzhao"
    title: "Sengzhao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BE"
    title: "Сэнчжао"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengzhao"
    title: "Sengzhao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seng-%C4%8Dao"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengchjao"
    title: "Sengchjao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%83ng_Tri%E1%BB%87u"
    title: "Tăng Triệu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724293"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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