Chinese Buddhist monks

Xuanzang (; ; 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making contributions to Chinese Buddhism, the travelogue of his journey to the Indian subcontinent in 629–645, his efforts to bring at least 657 Indian texts to China, and his translations of some of these texts. He was only able to translate 75 distinct sections of a total of 1,335 chapters, but his translations included some of the most important Mahayana scriptures.

Dajian Huineng or Hui-neng (; trad. 638-713), also commonly known as the Sixth Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan (traditional Chinese: 禪宗六祖), is a semi-legendary but central figure in the early history of Chinese Chan Buddhism.

Chinese Buddhist monk

Taiwanese Buddhist monk (1927–2023)

Chinese politician (1885-1935)

Chan practitioner

central character in the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

Fazang (; 643–712) was a Sogdian-Chinese Buddhist scholar, translator, and religious leader of the Tang dynasty. He was the third patriarch of the Huayan school of East Asian Buddhism, a key figure at the Chinese Imperial Court, and an influential Chinese Buddhist philosopher. Some scholars see him as the main figure in or even de facto founder of the Huayan school. Fazang's ancestors came from the Central Asian region of Sogdia, a major center for Silk Road trade, but he was born in the Tang capital of Chang'an (now Xi'an), where his family had become culturally Chinese.

Taixu (Tai-hsu, ; January 8, 1890 – March 17, 1947), also called Shi Taixu, was a Buddhist modernist, activist and thinker who advocated for a reformation and revival of Chinese Buddhism by drawing upon eclectic domestic and foreign sources and ideologies.

American Buddhist monk (1918-1995)

Buddhist monk, painter, musician (1880-1942)

artist (1884-1918)

Sogdian Buddhist monk and translator (died 280)

Indian Buddhist monk who translated Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Chinese

Buddhist teacher

Tanluan (, 476–554) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who wrote on Pure Land Buddhism.

Taiwanese monk (1927–2022)

thumb|Painting of Huiguo with an attendant. Japan, Kamakura period (14th century). Huiguo () (746–805) was a Buddhist monk of Tang China who studied and taught Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, a Vajrayana tradition recently imported from India. Later Huiguo would become the teacher of Kūkai, founder of Shingon Buddhism, a prominent school of Buddhism in Japan.

Chinese Buddhist monk

American martial artist

Chinese monk, Japanese patron deity of libraries

Bianji () was a Buddhist monk who lived in the Tang dynasty. A disciple of Xuanzang, he compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and translated Sanskrit sutras into Chinese. He was executed by Emperor Taizong for having an illicit affair with the emperor's daughter Princess Gaoyang.