Xiao Xiu (Chinese: 蕭秀; pinyin: Xiāo Xiù), formally Prince Kang of Ancheng (Chinese: 安成康王; pinyin: Ānchéng Kāng Wáng (475–518),[1] was a younger half-brother of Xiao Yan (Emperor Wu), the founder of the Liang dynasty of China. According to the Book of Liang, he was the 7th son of Xiao Yan's father Xiao Shunzhi.[1]
Xiao Xiu is said to have been a disciple of the Buddhist monk Daodu (道度, 462–527).[1]
- ^ a b c Benn, James A. (2007), Burning for the Buddha: self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism, Issue 19 of Studies in East Asian Buddhism, University of Hawaii Press, pp. 3, 243, 261, ISBN 978-0-8248-2992-6