]> 2026-10-15T19:38:16-04:00 People/Dānapāla 0 en Dānapāla. (C. Shihu; J. Sego; K. Siho 施護) (d.u.; fl. c. 980 CE). In Sanskrit, lit. "Protector of Giving"; one of the last great Indian translators of Buddhist texts into Chinese. A native of Oḍḍiyāna in the Gandhāra region of India, he was active in China during the Northern Song dynasty. At the order of the Song Emperor Taizhong (r. 960–997), he was installed in a translation bureau to the west of the imperial monastery of Taiping Xingguosi (in Yuanzhou, present-day Jiangxi province), where he and his team are said to have produced some 111 translations in over 230 rolls. His translations include texts from the prajñāpāramitā, Madhyamaka, and tantric traditions, including the ''Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā'', ''Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra'', ''Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha'', ''Hevajratantra'', Nāgārjuna's ''Yuktiṣaṣtikā'' and ''Dharmadhātustava'', and Kamalaśīla's ''Bhāvanākrama'', as well as several dhāraṇī texts. (Source: "Dānapāla." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 212. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) Oḍḍiyāna false false false Person false false false false People File:Teaching_Mudra_2.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/f/f6/Teaching_Mudra_2.jpg true true true Dānapāla;施護;Shihu;Dānapāla false 施護 Sego Siho Dānapāla Shihu Teaching_Mudra_2.jpg Dānapāla 施護 Shihu Translators Classical Dānapāla. (C. Shihu; J. Sego; K. Siho 施護) (d.u.; fl. c. 980 CE). In Sanskrit, lit. "Protector of Giving"; one of the last great Indian translators of Buddhist texts into Chinese. A native of Oḍḍiyāna in the Gandhāra region of India, he was active in China during the Northern Song dynasty. At the order of the Song Emperor Taizhong (r. 960–997), he was installed in a translation bureau to the west of the imperial monastery of Taiping Xingguosi (in Yuanzhou, present-day Jiangxi province), where he and his team are said to have produced some 111 translations in over 230 rolls. His translations include texts from the prajñāpāramitā, Madhyamaka, and tantric traditions, including the ''Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā'', ''Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra'', ''Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha'', ''Hevajratantra'', Nāgārjuna's ''Yuktiṣaṣtikā'' and ''Dharmadhātustava'', and Kamalaśīla's ''Bhāvanākrama'', as well as several dhāraṇī texts. (Source: "Dānapāla." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 212. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) Dānapāla;;;Dānapāla;;; ; ; 2020-08-20T21:17:34Z 2459082.3871991 2020-08-20T21:17:34Z 2459082.3871991 true People/Dānapāla 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Dānapāla]] People/Dānapāla# QUERYc7708adc202a579cbd24cdf86514921d 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Dānapāla]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Dānapāla||People/Dānapāla]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Dānapāla]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Dānapāla# QUERY85a834c0fadfe15c9372bd5866cd8804 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Dānapāla]] People/Dānapāla# QUERY01fb29d1012d38f3bff6f90179cf0d1c Dānapāla 0 en Dānapāla REDI 102 en REDI