Liu Xie (Chinese: 劉勰; pinyin: Liú Xié, ca.
Liu studied Buddhism with Sengyou and helped edit sutras at the Dinglin Monastery (定林寺) until his death during the Liang Dynasty.
[2] It was during his time editing Buddhist scriptures that he wrote his The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons.
[2] He also wrote an essay entitled "Treatise on Refuting Falsehood" (Mie Huo Lun).
As Liu observed, his students, who were the subjects of his experiment, struggled to perform both tasks simultaneously.