Abstract: Liu Xiaobiao employs a variety of monk biographies in his Annotations to A New Account of the Tales of the World, including life stories of four monks, such as Zhi Daolin, Fo Tucheng, Shi Limi, Shi Daoan. These biographies were written earlier than Memoirs of Eminent Monks and some of them were even earlier than Lives of Eminent and Holy Monks and A New Account of the Tales of the Worlda. These lives were historically related to monk biographies in the Six Dynasties, manifested certain cultural background and literary trends, contributed to the textual construction of collective biographies and comprehensive biographies, and featured the dual values historically and literarily. By  examining the monk biographies quoted in Liu Xiaobiao's Annotations to A New Account of the Tales of the World, exploring the record of monk biographies in the Six Dynasties, carding monk biographies in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and analyzing various forms and significance of monk biographies, it is apparent that monk biographies enjoy indispensable academic standing in monk biographical literature in that period for their great number and greatest contribution.

Keywords: Annotations to a New Account of the Tales of the World, monk biography, Buddhist Literature from the Six Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty