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Mataṅga

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• Mataṅga and His Work Bṛhaddeśī: Proceedings of the Seminar at Hampi, 1995, ed. by Prem Lata Sharma, Sangeet Natak Akademi (Delhi 2001).
• Liebenthal, Biography, pp. 284-285 has a discussion (here spelled Mātaṅga).
• A Buddhist arhat, said to be the first to introduce Buddhism to China.
• His dates are given as about 232-348? in Walter Liebenthal, Chinese Buddhism during the 4th and 5th Centuries, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 11, no. 1 (1955), pp. 44-83, at p. 62.
• Strickmann, CPP, p. 114, as name of a type of outcast.
• Dgra bcom pa Ma tanggi. Thuken, p. 353.
• Mātaṅga, an Arhat who lived at Golāṅgulaparivartana (Mjug ma bsgyur ba'i ri) near Rājagṛha. Buston, vol. 2, p. 7.

• Source: Tibskrit Philology