Zhi Qian
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zhi-qian-178-7567646
title:
Zhi Qian
text:
Zhi Qian was a Chinese Buddhist layman of Yuezhi ancestry who translated a wide range of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. He was the grandson of an immigrant from the country of the Great Yuezhi, an area that overlapped to at least some extent with the territory of the Kushan Empire. According to the Chinese custom of the time, he used the ethnonym "Zhi" as his surname, to indicate his foreign ancestry.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
3rd century Chinese Buddhist translator
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Qian
date created:
2005-02-07T08:14:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:13:12Z
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