DDB: 曇無竭 |

曇無竭

Readings

Pinyin: Tán wú jié

Wade-Giles: T'an-wu-chieh

Hangul: 담무갈

Korean MC: Dammugal

Korean MR: Tammugal

Katakana: ドンムカツ

Hepburn: Donmukatsu

Dharmôdgata

(Skt. *dharma-vikrama) 〔道行般若經 T 224.8.471a11〕[resp. Seishi Karashima; source(s): Lokaksema-AP, Hirakawa, Nakamura, FGD]
The name of a bodhisattva, also transcribed as 達摩鬱伽陀, translated as 法盛, 法勇, 法上, and 法起. He is stays in Sarvagaṇḍha 香城, where he always expounds the prajñāpāramitā 般若波羅蜜多. The Bodhisattva Ever Wailing 常啼菩薩 is able to reach that city by the empowerment of the Buddha and bodhisattvas just to hear him teach. 〔大智度論, 華嚴經探玄記〕[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
Tan Wujie. A Tang monk from Youzhou 幽州, who had the secular surname of Li 李. He became a śrāmaṇera as a youth, disciplining himself strenuously. Hearing of the travels of monks like Faxian 法顯 who had traveled to India, he became determined to do this for himself. Crossing the desert, he traveled through all the areas of Kucha 龜茲, Kashgar 疏勒, and so forth, eventually reaching Kashmir 罽賓, where he tried to get hold of a Sanskrit version of the Guanshiyin shouji jing 觀世音受記經. He later entered Yuezhi 月氏國, which bordered on India, but having run out of provisions, he got on a ship and returned home. Nothing is known of his activities after that. 〔梁高僧傳〕[resp. Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 793

Bulgyo sajeon, 142a

Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata), 50

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1027d

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6232

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0610

Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), 502

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)808c,1447a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 1290-3

Lokaksema's Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Karashima), 477

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