Tiān Xīzāi

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English Phonetics	Tiān Xīzāi
Sort Name	Tiān Xīzā
Chinese Script	天息災

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Rab Jyung

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About

Biographical Information

Tianxizai. (J. Tensokusai; K. Ch'ǒnsikchae 天息災 (d. 1000). Kashmiri monk-translator, who arrived in China in 980. While residing at a cloister to the west of the imperial monastery of Taiping-Xingguosi in Yuanzhou (present-day Jiangxi province), he translated (sometimes working in collaboration with Dānapāla and Fatian) seventeen Mahāyāna and prototantric scriptures into Chinese, including the Bodhicaryāvatāra, Kāraṇḍavyūha, Alpākṣarāprajñāpāramitāsūtra, Āyuṣparyantasūtra, (Ārya) Tārābhaṭṭarikāyanāmāṣṭottaraśataka, Māricīdhāraṇī, and the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa. (Source: "Tianxizai." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 913. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)

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Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.