Summary of the Eight Monographs

From the Zhou and Qin Dynasties to the Republic of China, countless famous masters have compiled a large number of monks' books over the past two thousand years. The Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Monasticism contains more than 1,300 kinds of books, and according to the latest statistics, the bibliography of all kinds of ancient Chinese monasticism has reached more than 2,000 kinds, whose variety, quantity, and richness of contents are the most in the world.

In the many monks' books, this book collects the "eight monks' books" is undoubtedly one of the best, no matter in the influence and popularity of the scale of the other monks' books are difficult to look forward to its back. The Three Character Classic, for example, has been translated into many languages around the world, known as the "twelfth-century encyclopedia", "one of the eight ancient books of China", and in recent years has been selected by UNESCO as one of the children's ethical series, and others such as "Thousand Character Classic", "The Disciple's Book", "The Book of Discipleship", "The Book of the Dead", "The Book of the Dead" and "The Book of the Dead". Others, such as Thousand Character Classic, Disciple's Rules, and Qionglin of Early Learning, are also household names and have had a wide impact on Chinese society.