鸠摩罗什

鳩摩羅什

Jiūmóluóshí

proper noun

Meanings

1 Kumarajiva (344–413), Buddhist monk from Kucha whose Chinese translations of the sutras are still the most widely read

Characters

sound "-ji(va)"

Examples

HSK 7-9

鸠摩罗什翻译了很多佛经。

Jiūmóluóshí fānyì le hěnduō Fójīng.

Kumarajiva translated many Buddhist sutras.

HSK 7-9

鸠摩罗什出生在龟兹，后来在长安译出了《金刚经》。

Jiūmóluóshí chūshēng zài Qiūcí, hòulái zài Cháng'ān yìchū le 《 Jīngāngjīng 》.

Kumarajiva was born in Kucha, and later in Chang'an he produced a translation of the Diamond Sutra.

Tips

history

The general 吕光 carried him off from Kucha in 384 and kept him for some seventeen years in the Hexi Corridor, where he learned Chinese. In 401 the Later Qin ruler 姚兴 brought him to 长安, where he led the teams that translated the Lotus, Diamond and Amitabha sutras.

culture

Legend says he vowed that if his translations were true, his tongue would not burn, and at his cremation it did not. A pagoda in 武威 is said to hold it.

Stroke Order

鸠 jiū

摩 mó

罗 luó

什 shén