Lay female practitioners were an important part of Buddhist history in the Song and Yuan dynasties, but the nature and importance of their role is obscured by textual sources written almost exclusively by men. This paper takes one example of an androcentric genre—the biography of a monk—and considers how women have been marginalized. The primary biographers of Zhongfeng Mingben 中峰明本 (1263-1323) leave out women who played a role in his life. Drawing on other sources, I argue that in fact women were important to the development of his career, and that his teachings encompassed women. 在宋元佛教史中，女居士是很重要的部分，可是她們的歷史價值幾乎完全被男性文人的著作掩蓋。僧人傳記是一種以男性為中心的文體，本文以其為例來探討女居士如何被邊緣化在僧人的傳記之中。更具體的說，本文討論中峰明本 (1263-1323) 傳記中所遺漏的女人。根據其他的史料，可以證實女居士在明本的生涯中扮演很重要的角色，而且他的教誨包含女人。
