Shis shuo Xin YU(New Stories Retold) was compiled in LIU Song Dynasty in the South Dynasties when Buddhism was rising up from the border culture to the mainstream culture.Most authors believed in Buddhism,and the characters they created had close relationships with Buddhism or were even Buddhist monks.The group images and activities of the scholars who worshiped Buddhism and Buddhist monks artistically reflected the movement and development of Buddhism in the Eastern Jin Dynasty,exerting some influence on Biography of Monks which waswritten later, especially on the vivid descriptions of the monks′ pictures.
