Miaodao (abbess)
Miaodao (Chinese: 妙道, died after 1134) was a Chinese Buddhist abbess and master, lüshi.
She was a daughter of minister Huang Shang (1044-1130) and became a nun at the age of twenty. She was a student of in the Caodong school in Xuefeng, and from 1134 at . She became a noted master and respected lecturer within the Chan Buddhism, served as abbess in several convents and gave lessons particularly but not exclusively to women. Women played an important part within the Chan Buddhism, and Miaodao was contemporary with her female colleague .
References[]
- Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang Through Ming 618 - 1644
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- 12th-century deaths
- Chinese Buddhist nuns
- 12th-century Chinese people
- 12th-century Chinese women
- Buddhist abbesses
- 11th-century Buddhist nuns
- 12th-century Buddhist nuns