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The nun Miao-wei (Wonderful Beauty) (444-513) of Western Green Garden Convent
Miao-wei's secular surname was Liu, and her family was from [the capital] Chien-k'ang. When she was a very small child, her extraordinary capacities were abundantly evident, and while still a young girl she left secular life to take up residence at Western Green Garden Convent. Her spotless practice of the monastic precepts, her highly awakened spiritual sensibilities, and her sincere faith that spread kindness led everyone to cherish her.
Miao-wei liked conversation and was particularly good at witticisms. She lectured on the Great Nirvāna Scripture, the Flower of the Law, and the Ten Stages, altogether over thirty times. She promoted the Mother of Monasticism Scripture of the Sarvāstivāda sect of Buddhism. In all circumstances she benefited a great number of people with her skillful guidance.
In the twelfth year of the t'ien-chien reign period (513), she died at the age of seventy.
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