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Dharmaraksa was one of the greatest translators of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. Of Yueh-Chih origin, his family lived at Dunhuang, where he was born around 230 CE.
Dharmaraksa came to the Chinese capital of Loyang in 266 CE, where he made the first known translations of the Lotus Sutra and the Dasabhumika Sutra, which were to become some of the classic texts of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism.
His proselytizing is said to have converted many to Buddhism in China, and made Xian a major center of Buddhism.
See also
References
"Dictionnary of Buddhism" by Damien Keown, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198605609
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