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Zongxiao (宗曉, 1151-1214) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Tiantai school during the Song Dynasty. He is known as the author of the Anthology on the Blissful Land (Lebang wenlei, 樂邦文類), the first anthology of Chinese Pure Land texts. He is also the first person to ever write about a Pure Land Buddhist list of ancestors or patriarchs. Zongxiao's work helped establish Pure Land Buddhism as a legitimate tradition in the Song era. Zongxiao also wrote a book on Lotus Sutra devotion, The Record of The Lotus Sutra's Manifest Responses (Fahuajing xianying lu, 法華經顯應錄), which links the Lotus Sutra with rebirth in Amitabha's Pure Land, along with describing many miraculous events resulting from Lotus Sutra devotion.