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Dharmagupta (Chos bsrungs)

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  • Chimpa, THBI, p. 14.
  • Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, pp. 323.
  • Blue Annals, p. 801.
  • Nakamura, pp. 181, 241, 289, 290.
  • Nattier, OUFT, pp. 92, 97. One of the translators of the Lotus Sūtra into Chinese.
  • Stefano Zacchetti, Dharmagupta's Unfinished Translation of the Diamond-Cleaver (Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra), T'oung Pao, vol. 82 (1996).
  • Worked together with Dharmayaśas on translations into Chinese. Pachow, VBM, p. 6.
  • Mookerji, Ancient, p. 606. Arrived in China in 590 CE and worked translating texts until his death in 619 CE.
  • He died in 619 CE. Kuwayama, Literary, pp. 719-721.
  • A name appearint in a donative inscription dated around 4th-5th centuries. Bhattacharya, Notes, p. 205.