Ching-te ch'uan-teng-lu (Chinese). The title means ‘The Transmission of the Lamp [published in the] Ching-te Era’, and is a collection of biographies and recorded sayings of past Buddhas, patriarchs, and masters of the Ch'an school in China. It was composed by the monk Tao-yüan in the Sung dynasty in 30 fascicles, and was added to the canon of Buddhist scriptures in the year 1004 during the Ching-te reign period (1004-8). It contains entries on a total of 1,701 figures, and is an invaluable source for early Ch'an history.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)