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śrīmitra | Glossary of Terms

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    Śrīmitra (d. 343), a prince from Kucha (龜茲, Qiuci, in the Tarim Basin on the Silk Road, present-day Kuqa in Xinjiang), who lived one generation before the other famous Kuchean translator, Kumārajīva. Kucha at the time was a culturally Indic, Tocharian-speaking kingdom. Śrīmitra abdicated the throne in favor of his younger brother and became a monk and translator, traveling to China. He spent 307–312 in Luoyang (洛陽) where he translated Taishō 1331 mentioned here, later moving to Jiankang (建康). He was responsible for introducing a number of other Buddhist texts and dhāraṇīs to China.