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Dharmakṣema (385-433 CE)

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  • Jinhua Chen, The Indian Buddhist Missionary Dharmakṣema (385-433): A New Dating of His Arrival in Guzang and of His Translations, T'oung Pao, vol. 90 (2004), pp. 215-263. There are two different dates for his arrival in Guzang (and hence for his subsequent translation activities). The resolution of this dating problem turns around the real meaning of the expression "kaiding xixia."
  • Nakamura, p. 193.
  • Davidson, HRPA, p. 160. Translated the Bodhisattvabhūmi in 414-421 CE.
  • Nattier, OUFT, pp. 37-38.
  • McBride, Spells, p. 96 ff.