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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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