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曇摩蜜多

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Basic Meaning: *Dharmamitra

Senses:

  • Translator monk from Kashmir 罽賓 who worked in China during the Liu Song 劉宋. His name is translated into Chinese as 法秀. Born in 356; travelled to Kuche 庫車 etc., and arrived in China 424, going first to Shu 蜀 (Sichuan) and then to Jiankang (Nanjing) via. Jingzhou 荊州. He later moved to the a monastery called Dinglin 定林 on Mt. Zhong 鍾山, where he died in 442 at the age of 87 (var. 80). He is credited with the translation of a number of 'contemplation' sūtras (of the same type as the better-known Sutra of Immeasurable Life 無量壽經 T 360), including the Guan Puxian pusa xing fa jing 觀普賢菩薩行法經 ( 'Samantabhadra Contemplation Sutra' ) T 277; 虛空藏菩薩神咒經 Ākāśagarbha-sūtra T 407; and the Guan Xukongzang pusa jing 觀虛空藏菩薩經 T 409; he is also credited with the 轉女身經 Strīvivartavyākaraṇa-sūtra T 564. The Hôbôgirin Répertoire also suggests that the Chan mi yao fa jing 禪祕要法經 T 613, ascribed to Kumārajīva 鳩摩羅什, may actually be by him. For details of his biography in English, see FUJITA Kōtatsu, “The Textual Origins of the Kuan Wu-liang-shou ching: A Canonical Scripture of Pure Land Buddhism,” trans. Kenneth K. Tanaka, in Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed., Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1990), 153. For his biography, see Chu sanzang ji ji 出三藏記集 T 2145.55.104c29–105b16. 〔高僧傳〕 〔翻譯名義集 T 2131.54.1070a4 〕

    References:

    Schuster, Nancy. 1984. “Yoga-Master Dharmamitra and Clerical Misogyny in Fifth Century Buddhism.” The Tibet Journal 9 (4): 33-46.

    [Michael Radich, Charles Muller, William Chu; source(s): Ui, Hôbôgirin-Répertoire, Hirakawa]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata) 297

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 793

    Bulgyo sajeon 142a

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0610

    Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 502

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)3970b,2614c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1290-3

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2018-07-13