# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuquan-shenxiu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:43.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuquan-shenxiu"
name: "Yuquan Shenxiu"
slug: "yuquan-shenxiu"
description: "Yuquan Shenxiu was one of the most influential Chan masters of his day, a Patriarch of the East Mountain Teaching of Chan Buddhism. Shenxiu was Dharma heir of Daman Hongren (601–674), honoured by Wu Zetian of the Tang dynasty, and the putative author of the Guan Xin Lun, a text once attributed to Bodhidharma."
tagline: "Chinese Zen Patriarch"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shenxiu_(negative).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "606"
deathDate: "706"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.861668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuquan_Shenxiu"
    title: "Yuquan Shenxiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenxiu"
    title: "Shenxiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenxiu"
    title: "Shenxiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuquan_Shenxiu"
    title: "Yuquan Shenxiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E7%A7%80"
    title: "神秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%EC%88%98_(%EB%8B%B9%EB%82%98%EB%9D%BC)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuquan_Shenxiu"
    title: "Yuquan Shenxiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenxiu"
    title: "Shenxiu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%E1%BA%A7n_T%C3%BA"
    title: "Thần Tú"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E7%A7%80"
    title: "神秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704016"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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