Śrīmitra: Difference between revisions

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PersonType	Category:Translators
MainNamePhon	Śrīmitra
MainNameChi	帛尸梨密多羅
MainNamePin	Boshilimiduoluo
SortName	Śrīmitra
bio	Śrīmitra—literally meaning ‘lucky friend’ was a Śramaṇa of western origin [Kucha] who was the heir apparent of a king of that country. He, however, gave up his kingdom to his younger brother and became a Śramaṇa. He came to China in the Yun-Kia period A.D. 307–12, under the western Tsin dynasty and translated 3 works at Kin-khan (Nanking) under the reign of Yuen-ti, A.D. 317–322 and died at the age of eighty in the Hhien-Khan period, A.D. 335–342. The works are Mahāhhishekarāddhidhāraṇi-sūtra, Mahāmayūri-Vidyārāgnī and in two Fascimulae (Nanjio: Catalogue, ii, 36, pp. 397–98). (Puri, Buddhism in Central Asia, 115n91)
YearDeath	ca. 343
IsInGyatsa	No
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 |MainNameChi=帛尸梨密多羅
 |MainNamePin=Boshilimiduoluo
-|bio=Scholar from Kucha Po-Śrīmitra went to China during the period 307-312. The political troubles there compelled him to move to South China where he translated three Buddhist texts.
+|bio=Śrīmitra—literally meaning ‘lucky friend’ was a Śramaṇa of western origin [Kucha] who was the heir apparent of a king of that country. He, however, gave up his kingdom to his younger brother and became a Śramaṇa. He came to China in the Yun-Kia period A.D. 307–12, under the western Tsin dynasty and translated 3 works at Kin-khan (Nanking) under the reign of Yuen-ti, A.D. 317–322 and died at the age of eighty in the Hhien-Khan period, A.D. 335–342. The works are ''Mahāhhishekarāddhidhāraṇi-sūtra'', ''Mahāmayūri-Vidyārāgnī'' and in two Fascimulae (Nanjio: ''Catalogue'', ii, 36, pp. 397–98). (Puri, ''Buddhism in Central Asia'', 115n91)
-Śrīmitra—literally meaning ‘lucky friend’ was a Śramaṇa of western origin [Kucha] who was the heir apparent of a king of that country. He, however, gave up his kingdom to his younger brother and became a Śramaṇa. He came to China in the Yun-Kia period A.D. 307–12, under the western Tsin dynasty and translated 3 works at Kin-khan (Nanking) under the reign of Yuen-ti, A.D. 317–322 and died at the age of eighty in the Hhien-Khan period, A.D. 335–342. The works are ''Mahāhhishekarāddhidhāraṇi-sūtra'', ''Mahāmayūri-Vidyārāgnī'' and in two Fascimulae (Nanjio: ''Catalogue'', ii, 36, pp. 397–98). (Puri, ''Buddhism in Central Asia'', 115n91)
 |PersonType=Translators
 |YearDeath=ca. 343