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Kumārajīva even suggests that the teachings in the sutras may delude those who are unprepared, i.e. at a lower level of understanding. According to Kumārajīva, we truly understand the Dharma only when we attain complete and pure prajñā. Prajñā is the means of removing all obstacles and hindrances, all attachments–even attachments to ...
Kumarajiva. Kumārajīva ( traditional Chinese : 鳩摩羅什; simplified Chinese : 鸠摩罗什; pinyin : Jiūmóluóshí; Wade–Giles : Chiu1 mo2 lo2 shih2, 344–413 CE) [1] was a Buddhist monk, scholar, missionary and translator from the Kingdom of Kucha (present-day Xinjiang, China). Kumārajīva is seen as one of the greatest translators ...
Mar 20, 2024 · Kumarajiva (born 343/344—died 413) was a Buddhist scholar and seer, famed for his encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning. He is recognized as one of the greatest translators of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Chinese, and it was largely owing to his efforts and influence that Buddhist religious and philosophical ideas ...
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At the age of 20, Kumārajīva was fully ordained at the king's palace, and lived in a new monastery built by king Po-Shun. Kumārajīva proceeded to study the Pañcavi-śati-sāhasrikā sūtra, one of the longer Perfection of Wisdom texts, relatively obscure at the time. He is known to have engaged in debates, and to have encouraged dialog ...
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Kumārajīva obliged and returned to instruct the king's daughter A-Kie-ye-mo-ti, who had become a nun, in the Mahāsannipāta and Mahāvaipulya sūtras. At age 20, Kumārajīva was fully ordained at the king's palace, and lived in a new Monastery built by king Po-Shun.
May 23, 2018 · KUMĀRAJĪVA. Kumārajīva (350–409 or 413), the most important translator in East Asian Buddhist history, was born to a noble family in Kucha, a center of largely main-stream Buddhist schools on the northern branch of the Silk Road. His native language, now known as Tokharian B, belonged to the Indo-European family.
Kumārajīva was a central Asian Buddhist monk who travelled to China in 379 and became one of the ‘four great translators’ of Chinese Buddhist texts. He was fluent in both Sarvāstivādin and Mahāyāna studies and translated the Lotus Sūtra and other texts, as well as providing instruction on emptiness.
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