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{{Infobox religious biography<br />
|name = Dharmaratna<br />
|image = Dharmaratna.jpg<br />
|birth_date = unknown<br />
|caption = Tumulus marker of Dharmaratna located in White Horse Temple, Luoyang, China<br />
|birth_place = Central India<br />
|death_date = unknown<br />
|death_place = [[Luoyang]], [[Henan]], China<br />
|flourished = 50-80 CE<br />
|religion = [[Buddhism]]<br />
| works = Sutra in Forty-two Sections<br />
| occupation = [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]] who introduced Buddhism to China, [[translator]] from Sanskrit to Chinese<br />
}}<br />
{{Buddhism and China}}<br />
{{Chinese<br />
|pic=<br />
|piccap=<br />
|t=竺法蘭<br />
|s=竺法兰<br />
|p= Zhú Fǎlán<br />
|w=Chu<sup>2</sup> Fa<sup>3</sup> lan<sup>2</sup><br />
|lang1_content= धर्मरत्न<br />
|lang1=Sanskrit<br />
}}<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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