Gautama Saṃghadeva
Gautama Saṃghadeva (C. Qùtán Sēngqiétípó 瞿曇僧伽提婆). A Kashmiri monk who arrived in Chang'an 長安 in 383 and worked there until 385, participating in the translation of Vasumitraʼs Prakaraṇapāda under Saṃghabhūti and making a first abortive attempt to translate the Jñānaprasthāna.[1]
He then went to Luoyang with Fahe 法和, where he reworked the Jñānaprasthāna and the Vibhāṣā 鞞婆沙論, also first translated by Saṃghabhūti. This version of the Vibhāṣā is now lost.[1]
In 391 Saṃghadeva went to Lushan, where he translated the Abhidharmasāra (Abhidharmahṛdaya ) in 391, and the Sanfa du lun (三法度論).[1]
In 398 he went to Jiankang (Nanjing), where General Wang Xun 王珣 had a temple built for him. There he translated the Ekottara Agama and the Madhyama Agama and lectured on Abhidharma.[1]
Thus, in total, he is attributed with the following translations:[1]
- 中阿含經 the Madhyama Agama T 26;
- 增壹阿含經 the Ekottara Agama T 125;
- 三法度論 the Sanfa du lun T 1506;
- 阿毘曇八犍度論 (Abhidharma)jñānaprasthâna śāstra T 1543 (with Zhu Fonian 竺佛念 ); and
- 阿毘曇心論 the Abhidharmahṛdaya śāstra T 1550 (together with Lushan Huiyuan), translated as 衆天.
Since Huiyuan tells us that Saṃghadeva recited the Sanfa du lun every morning by heart, he himself was probably a Vātsīputrīya. See Walter Liebenthal, “A Biography of Chu Tao-sheng”, Monumenta Nipponica 11, no. 3 (1955): 286–287, 286 n. 12. Also transliterated as 僧伽提和 and 僧迦禘婆. Translated into Chinese as 衆天. 〔 翻譯名義集 T 2131.54.1069a7〕 [Michael Radich][1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
瞿曇僧伽提婆, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (to sign in, see DDB sign-in)
