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*''Born: [[350]]''
*''Died: c. [[409]]''
Kumarajiva was one of a number of early translators of [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] texts into Chinese. Originally from Central Asia, he first came to [[Chang'an]] in [[401]], and directed a thousand monks in the project of translating a number of texts. Among these were works which significantly introduced Madhyamika ideas into China, such as the doctrine of emptiness known as ''sunyata''.
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==References==
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 87-88.
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