Guṇabhadra
Born
394 AD
394 AD
Nationality
India
India
Occupation
Monk of Mahayana Buddhism
Monk of Mahayana Buddhism
Gunabhadra (394–468) (Template:Zh) was a monk of Mahayana Buddhism from Magadha, India. He traveled to China by sea with Gunavarma in 435. They were both treated as honored guests by Emperor Wen of Liu Song, the ruler of South China at the time. In China, he translated one of the key Mahayana sutras, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, from Sanskrit to Chinese, and the sutra “Bimashōkyō”, which forms "a volume from the Issaikyō (a Buddhist corpus), commonly known as Jingo-ji kyō," as it was handed down at the Jingo-ji temple.[1] Before translating the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, he translated another important sutra, the Saṃyuktāgama into Chinese. He continued to be active in other translations and preaching.
References
- ↑ Buddhist Sutra “Bimashōkyō”, Guṇabhadra, 394-468.