Śīladharma
| English Phonetics | Śīladharma |
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Biographical Information
Śīladharma. (C. Shiluodamo/Jiefa; J. Shiradatsuma/Kaihō; K. Siradalma/Kyebǒp 尸羅達摩/戒法) (d.u., fl. c. eighth-ninth centuries). A translator-monk from Khotan (C. Yutian), who stayed at the monastery of Longxingsi in Beiting (present-day Inner Mongolia), during the Tang dynasty. Wukong (d. 812), a Chinese pilgrim who spent some forty years sojourning in India and Central Asia, arrived in Beiting in 789 with several Sanskrit manuscripts of Indian scriptures. Wukong asked Śīladharma to collaborate with him in translating two of the sūtras he brought back with him into Chinese: the Daśabhūmikasūtra (Foshuo shidi jing) and the Pariṇāmacakrasūtra (Huixianglun jing). Upon completing the translations, Śīladharma accompanied Wukong to the Tang capital of Chang'an in 790, where they had an audience at the imperial court, after which Śīladharma returned to his home country. (Source: "Śīladharma." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 822. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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