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Illustration — Engraving of Fu Dashi in the "Newly Engraved Figures to Supplement the Record of Searching for the Spirits" (Chinese: 新刻出像增補搜神記, pinyin: Xīnkè Chūxiàng Zēngbǔ Sōushén Jì) Fu Dashi (Chinese: 傅大士; pinyin: Fù Dàshì, lit: "Mahāsattva Fu", 497 – 569) was a Chinese Buddhist layman who lived in Dongyang under the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In Chinese Buddhist tradition, he is popularly revered alongside Bodhidharma and Baozhi as the "Three Mahāsattvas of the Liang Dynasty" (Chinese: 梁代三大士; pinyin: Liángdài Sāndàshì). In traditional Buddhist hagiographies of his life, Fu Dashi is recorded as having overseen the construction of Shuanglin Temple and compiling an early version of the Chinese Buddhist Canon.

Also recorded as Fudaishi · Fu Xi · Shanhui dashi · Fu Dashi