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Five colors stone

An elusive pen name attached to a classic Chinese work, remembered today through the public-domain survival of Eight Dwelling Places of Buddhist Immortals. Little biographical detail seems to be firmly documented, which only adds to the air of mystery around the name.

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Eight dwelling places of Buddhist immortals

Eight dwelling places of Buddhist immortals

by Five colors stone

About the author

Five Colors Stone appears to be the credited author name for the Chinese work Eight Dwelling Places of Buddhist Immortals, a text that is available through Project Gutenberg and listed by book catalog sites such as ManyBooks.

Reliable biographical information about the person behind that name is scarce in the sources I could confirm. Because of that, it is safest to treat Five Colors Stone as an author credit or pen name associated with the work, rather than make stronger claims about a documented life story.

For readers, the interest is really in the book itself: a Chinese narrative shaped by loss, loyalty, family devotion, and Buddhist ideas of immortality. Even with the author's identity mostly in shadow, the work has continued to circulate and find modern readers through digital archives.