The number of Buddhist Nuns’ Biographies has greatly increased since the 1990s, far exceeding previous publications by quality and quantity. Hagiographies merge both religious and social attitudes towards religious figures. Thus, I will introduce recently published biographies, as well as their various genres to show the visibility of Taiwanese nuns. From 1980 to 2020, 19 auto/biographies of Taiwanese nuns, 20 master’s theses and 5 doctoral dissertations on contemporary Taiwanese nuns were published. I will also introduce the resources for writing nuns’ biographies in this article. The purpose of this article is not to introduce the content of nun biographies, but to examine the mechanisms by which those nun leaders published nun biographies, the academic qualifications of the nuns themselves and the female perspective expressed by the group's collaboration in writing nun histories. Through the nature of publication and the categorization of authors, this paper finds that many nuns have written master’s theses on the life history of nuns. However, because of the lack of theory to present the religious and gendered connotations of the main characters of nun biographies, nun biographies have not yet formed an independent academic field in post-war Taiwan.
