Translation of the content: "Commentary, Translation, and Interpretation of the Canon of the Circle"

Author: Jing Sanlong
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: The translator of the Diamond Sutra is Buddha-dhara, whose name is translated as Juejiu, meaning "awakening the world to salvation." The Biographies of Eminent Monks records that he was from North India, Kapi?a. Due to the lack of information about his life and dates, although he is said to have lived during the Tang Dynasty, there are differing opinions about the time when this scripture was translated. The most prominent account is found in The Compendium of the Lives of the Buddha and Patriarchs, Volume 39, which states that in the sixth year of the Yonghui era of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Buddha-dhara translated the Diamond Sutra at White Horse Temple. There is also a claim that during the second year of the Shouzong era when Empress Wu Zetian declared herself emperor and changed the country's name to Zhou, Buddha-dhara held the Sanskrit manuscript and translated two volumes of the Diamond Sutra at White Horse Temple.