An Xuan
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An Xuan (C. 安玄) (fl. 168-189[1]) was a Parthian layman credited with working alongside An Shigao and Yan Fotiao in the translation of Buddhist texts in Luoyang during Later Han dynasty in China.
With Yan Fotiao, he is credited with an early translation of the Ugraparipṛcchā, with the Chinese title of Fajing jing (C. 法鏡經).[2]
During the reign of Later Han Emperor Ling 靈帝 (168–188), he was graced by the Chinese government with the title Commandant of Cavalry 騎都尉.[2]
Further reading
- Nattier, Jan (2008). A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms Periods, Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica, IRIAB Vol. X, 89-94; ISBN 978-4-904234-00-6
An_Xuan, Tsadra Commons
Notes
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Parthia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
安玄, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
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