Zhi Qian
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | North China |
| Died | Nanjing |
| China | |
| Hanyu pinyin | Zhī Qiān |
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| ID | 3326489 |
Zhi Qian Life story
Zhi Qian was a Chinese Buddhist layman of Yuezhi ancestry who translated a wide range of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. He was the grandson of an immigrant from the country of the Great Yuezhi, an area that overlapped to at least some extent with the territory of the Kushan Empire.
