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Fotudeng (d. 348)

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  • Also, Fotucheng. A Central Asian monk and 'thaumaturge.' Arrived in North China in around 317. McBride, Spells, p. 91.
  • Arthur F. Wright, Fo-t'u-teng: A Biography, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 11, nos. 3-4 (1948), pp. 321-371.
  • Arthur F. Wright, Biography of the Nun An-ling-shou, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (June 1952), pp. 193-196. She was ordained as a nun by Fotudeng.
  • Called Fo-tu-deng in Grayson, Religious Syncretism, p. 188.
  • A Kuchean, his date given as 232-348(?). Teiser, RW, p. 147.