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- Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
Trad. 掃地僧
- Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龍八部|天龙八部[Tian1 long2 Ba1 Bu4])
- (fig.) person whose remarkable talents are not well known
Trad. 張僧繇
- Zhang Sengyou (active c. 490-540), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家
- Coraciiformes, class of birds including kingfishers and hornbills
- lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom)
- fig. not enough to go around
- demand exceeds supply
- (zoology) Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
Trad. 藍胸佛法僧
- (bird species of China) European roller (Coracias garrulus)
- (bird species of China) Indochinese roller (Coracias affinis)
- (bird species) Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis)
- lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
- fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else