Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s6.26

c32.s6.26

The next century, A.D. 500–600, saw a continued influx into China of Indian scholars, among whom the more well-known are the following, viz. (1) Dharmaruchi, (2) Ratnamati, (3) Bodhiruchi, (4) Buddhaśānta, (5) Gautama Prajñāruchi, (6) Upaśūnya, (7) Vimokshasena, and others. Dharmaruchi was from Southern India and translated three works into Chinese. Ratnamati was from Central India. He rendered into Chinese "Mahāyāna-Tantra-Śāstra", showing that Tāntrika Mahāyāna had already spread to China. He also translated "Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka". Bodhiruchi became an accomplished Chinese scholar and translated more than thirty works in twenty-seven years (a.d. 508–535), such as "Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra". Buddhaśānta, another master of Chinese, translated ten works in fifteen years (a.d. 524–539).