Buddhabhadra (translator)

There was another Indian monk named Buddhabhadra contemporary to this translator: Batuo.

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Buddhabhadra (simplified Chinese: 佛陀跋陀罗; traditional Chinese: 佛陀跋陀羅; pinyin: Fótuóbátuóluó) (359-429 CE) was a Mahayana Buddhist meditation and Vinaya master.[1][2][3] He is most known for his prolific translation efforts of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Chinese, and was responsible for the first Chinese translation of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra (Flower Ornament Scripture) in the 5th century.[4] In China he is often known as Bátuó (跋陀) the "Meditation Master from India" (来自印度的冥想大师).[3]

  1. ^ Beal, Samuel (1884). Si-yu-ki, Buddhist records of the Western world, London: Trübner
  2. ^ Lyapina, Sasha. Buddhabhadra and his Translation Team
  3. ^ a b Muller et al. 佛陀跋陀羅 [Buddhabhadra], Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
  4. ^ Cleary, Thomas. The Flower Ornament Scripture: a Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra. 1984. p. 2