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Guṇabhadra (fl. 435-443)

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  • All the information I find on a person by this name is about the 5th-century translator in China, which quite surely shouldn't be identical to the author of the tantric text preserved in Tibetan (listed below).
  • Meinert, Pliable, pp. 193, 194. At some point some might have considered him, the translator of the Laṅkāvatāra, to be the lineage founder rather than Bodhidharma...
  • Lancaster, PRS, p. 276.
  • Nakamura, p. 227. Translator working in China between 435-443 CE.
  • A brahmin from central India who arrived in Guangzhou by sea in 435. See Charles Holcombe, Trade-Buddhism: Maritime Trade, Immigration and the Buddhist Landfall in Early Japan, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 119, no. 2 (1999), pp. 280-292 at p. 285.
  • Pachow, VBM, p. 13. Died in 468 CE age 75.
  • Mookerji, Ancient, p. 604. He translated as many as 78 works.
  • EoB, vol. 5, pp. 391-393.