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{{Infobox religious biography
|name        = Dharmaratna
|image       = Dharmaratna.jpg
|birth_date  = unknown
|caption     = Tumulus marker of Dharmaratna located in White Horse Temple, Luoyang, China
|birth_place = Central India
|death_date  = unknown
|death_place = [[Luoyang]], [[Henan]], China
|flourished = 50-80 CE
|religion    = [[Buddhism]]
| works = Sutra in Forty-two Sections
| occupation = [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]] who introduced Buddhism to China, [[translator]] from Sanskrit to Chinese
}}
{{Buddhism and China}}
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|t=竺法蘭
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|p= Zhú Fǎlán
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|lang1_content= धर्मरत्न
|lang1=Sanskrit
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'''Dharmaratna''', '''Gobharana''', or '''Zhu Falan''' (竺法蘭) was an Indian [[Buddhist monk]] who is traditionally believed to have first introduced [[Buddhism]] to [[China]] in the 1st century CE.

According to popular accounts of [[Chinese Buddhism]], [[Emperor Ming of Han]] dreamt of a golden deity interpreted as the [[Buddha]] and sent a delegation to India. They returned circa 67 CE with the monks [[Kasyapa Matanga]] and Dharmaratna, and white horses carrying [[Buddhist texts]] and images. The emperor established [[White Horse Temple]] in the Han capital [[Luoyang]], where the two supposedly first translated the ''[[Sutra of Forty-two Chapters]]'' into Chinese.<ref>[http://www.buddhism-dict.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?8f.xml+id('b8fe6-8449-6469-9a30') 竺法蘭]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Digital Dictionary of Buddhism]]'' (login: guest, no password).</ref>

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[[Category:Indian Buddhist monks]]
[[Category:Indian Buddhist missionaries]]
[[Category:1st-century Indian monks]]
[[Category:Han dynasty Buddhist monks]]


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