The details of Shítóu's life are found in traditional biographies.
In recent years, traditional biography - dates, places, publications - has been losing ground to a more lurid sort of scholarship.
This neither produces a traditional biography, nor even a traditional plot, as seen from a Western perspective.
Most modern scholars doubt the historicity of traditional biographies and works written about Huineng.
Recently published research further challenges the traditional biography of the artist.
According to traditional biographies, he became a monk at the age of eleven.
The 710-page book was a traditional biography.
The multi-volumed series helped promote traditional rabbinic biography and literature among the American public.
But he has no interest in traditional biography.
The novel is written as a traditional fictional biography.