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ku mA ra jI ba
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[kumārajiva]. A a great translator from Kotan (li-yul). His father, although of Indian origin, married a princess of a northern Kotan (li-yul) king, and gave birth to this translator there. At a young age he entered monkhood, and received the name Zhonu Tsering. He studied Sanskrit language and Hinayana Buddhist doctrines, but later entered into [mahāyāna] tradition and became erudite in the Middle View philosophy. He was proficient in both Tibetan and Chinese language. He translated the Diamond Cut [sūtra] and major and minor texts of the Wisdom Perfection texts, the White Lotus [sūtra], the Stainless Wisdom [sūtra], the Root Middle Way text of [nāgārjuna], [āryadeva]'s Four Hundred Stanzas and many other treatises. He had many disciples and passed away at the age of seventy.
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