Pāramiti
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Biographical Information
According to the account in the Chinese cataloguer Zhisheng's Xu gujin yijing tuji, the Śūraṃgamasūtra was brought to China by a śramaṇa named Pāramiti. Because the Śūraṃgamasūtra had been proclaimed a national treasure, the Indian king had forbidden anyone to take the sūtra out of the country. In order to transmit this scripture to China, Pāramiti wrote the sūtra out in minute letters on extremely fine silk, then he cut open his arm and hid the small scroll inside his flesh. With the sūtra safely hidden away, Pāramiti set out for China and eventually arrived in Guangdong province. There, he happened to meet the exiled Prime Minister Fangrong, who invited him to reside at the monastery of Zhizhisi, where he translated the sūtra in 705 CE. Apart from Pāramiti's putative connection to the Śūraṃgamasūtra, however, nothing more is known about him and he has no biography in the Gaoseng zhuan ("Biographies of Eminent Monks"). (Source: "*Śūraṃgamasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 873–74. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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