page_title: The Purple Lotus Buddhist
hierarchical_section_title: The Purple Lotus Buddhist
caption_attribution_description: English: 19th-century illustration of a scene from the short story "The Purple Lotus Buddhist" collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (1740).
context_page_description: "The Purple Lotus Buddhist" is a short story by Pu Songling collected in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi. It revolves around a Chinese man battling a life-threatening illness. The tale was included in the fourth volume of Sidney Sondergard's translation of Liaozhai published in 2010.
context_section_description: "The Purple Lotus Buddhist" (Chinese: 紫花和尚; pinyin: Zǐhuā Héshàng) is a short story by Pu Songling collected in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (1740). It revolves around a Chinese man battling a life-threatening illness. The tale was included in the fourth volume of Sidney Sondergard's translation of Liaozhai published in 2010.
caption: The maidservant and the scholar; 19th-century illustration from Xiangzhu liaozhai zhiyi tuyong (Liaozhai with commentary and illustrations; 1886)
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