Collection of Outstanding Figures of the Zen Garden (chữ Hán: 禪苑集英, ) is a Literary Chinese Vietnamese Zen Buddhist biographical text dating to 1337.Cuong Tu Nguyen, Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thiè̂n Uyẻ̂n Tập AnhPhilip Taylor, Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam, 2007 - Page 464Thien Do, Vietnamese Supernaturalism: Views from the Southern Region, 2012, p. 34: "Thiền Uyển Tập Anh, the fourteenth century text on outstanding figures in Vietnamese Zen, mentions a conversation between a Buddhist monk and his master in the Lý era".Thiền uyển tập anh 禪 苑集英 trong bối cảnh văn hóa - văn học Đông Á It connects the history of Buddhism in Vietnam with China and has aspects of a Dharma transmission text modelled on The Transmission of the Lamp genre.Nguyen Cong Tu “Rethinking Vietnamese Buddhist History: Is the Thiền Uyển Tập Anh a Transmission of the Lamp Text? In Essays into Vietnamese Pasts, edited by K.W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell
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