鳩摩羅

(鳩摩羅, 鸠摩罗)

[lang id =1028]鳩摩羅什 ([lang id =1028]鳩摩羅什婆); [lang id =1028]鳩摩羅時婆 (or [lang id =1028]鳩摩羅耆婆); [lang id =1028]羅什 Kumārajīva, one of the 'four suns' of Mahāyāna Buddhism, of which he was the early and most effective propagator in China. He died in Chang-an about A.D. 412. His father was an Indian, his mother a princess of Karashahr. He is noted for the number of his translations and commentaries, which he is said to have dictated to some 800 monastic scribes. After cremation his tongue remained 'unconsumed'.