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Prajñā (Buddhist monk)

Prajñā (Chinese: 般若三藏 or 般若; pinyin: Bōrě Sāncáng or Bō Rě, 734[1]), was a 9th-century Buddhist monk born in Kapisa, near modern Kabul, Afghanistan.[2]

Prajñā

般若三藏

Bōrě Sāncáng

Bōrě Sāncáng

般若

Bō Rě

Bō Rě

प्रज्ञा

He visited Tang China and contributed several important retranslations of Sanskrit sutras into Chinese. Some of his main works are:


Prajñā reportedly befriended the Japanese monk Kūkai, future founder of Shingon Buddhism, during his pilgrimage to China. He is said to have helped Kūkai learn and understand Sanskrit source texts.


According to the Zhenyuan Catalogue, Prajñā translated a work known as the Satparamita Sutra into Chinese with the help of the Christian monk Jingjing. This work does not survive.[3]

Silk Road transmission of Buddhism

Keown, Damian (2003). Dictionary of Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press.  0-19-860560-9

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