Buddhayaśas
| English Phonetics | Buddhayaśas |
|---|---|
| Sort Name | Buddhayaśas |
| Chinese Script | 佛陀耶舍 |
| Chinese Transliteration | Fotuoyeshe |
| Japanese Transliteration | Butsudayasha |
| Korean Transliteration | Pult'ayasa |
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Biographical Information
Buddhayaśas. (C. Fotuoyeshe; J. Butsudayasha; K. Pult'ayasa 佛陀耶舍) (d.u.; fl. c. early fifth century). A monk from Kashmir . . . who became an important early translator of Indic Buddhist texts into Chinese. Buddhayaśas is said to have memorized several million words worth of both mainstream and Mahāyāna materials and became a renowned teacher in his homeland. He later taught the Sarvāstivāda vinaya to the preeminent translator Kumārajīva and later joined his star pupil in China, traveling to the capital of Chang'an at Kumãrajīva's invitation in 408. While in China, he collaborated with the Chinese monk Zhu Fonian (d.u.) in the translation of two massive texts of the mainstream Buddhist tradition: the Sifen Lü ("Four-Part Vinaya," in sixty rolls), the vinaya collection of the Dharmaguptaka school, which would become the definitive vinaya used within the Chinese tradition; and the Dīrghāgama, also generally presumed to be associated with the Dharmaguptakas. Even after returning to Kashmir four years later, Buddhayaśas is said to have continued with his translation work, eventually sending back to China his rendering of the Ākāśagarbhasūtra. (Source: "Buddhayaśas." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 157. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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