The Buddhist Zhanran Precious Scroll is rarely mentioned by researchers but is of great significance in the religious and cultural history of China. Its central content is to interprets how the monk Zhanran Yuancheng (1561-1626) matured from an ordinary person to the eminent Master who revived the Caodong School in the Ming dynasty. Taking the most widely circulating edition, published in two volumes in the third year of the Republic of China (1914), as an example, this article studies the narrative writing of Zhanran Yuancheng from the perspective of communication studies, and examines how it illuminated the interrelationship among literature, history, and religion.