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曇摩難提，此云法喜，兜佉勒人。齠年離俗，聰慧夙成，研諷經典，以專精致業。遍觀三藏，闇誦《增一阿含經》，博識洽聞，靡所不綜，是以國內遠近，咸共推服。少而觀方，遍歷諸國，常謂弘法之體，宜宣布未聞，故遠冒流沙，懷寶東入，以符氏建元中，至于長安。

Dharmanandin, translated here as Faxi (“Delight in the Dharma”), was a native of Tukhāra. Leaving worldly life in his boyhood, his intelligence matured early; he studied and chanted the scriptures, devoting his focus to perfecting his practice. He surveyed the Tripiṭaka completely and recited from memory the *Ekottarika-āgama*. He was vastly learned and knowledgeable, thoroughly synthesizing everything, so that far and near within his country, all submitted to and respected him. In his youth he observed foreign lands, traveling through various countries, and always held that the essential principle of propagating the Dharma was that what had not yet been heard should be proclaimed. Therefore, braving the shifting sands from afar, and harboring the treasures, he entered east, arriving in Chang'an during the Jianyuan era of the Fu clan.