1, jana delta

Janagodo is one of the specific Buddhist development processes that spread to China. He was a foreign monk in the translation stage of scriptures. He was originally a native of Gandhara, India. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he followed his master to China to promote Buddhism. During that period, he translated Buddhist scriptures into Chinese, which was the most basic way to spread Buddhism. Janagodo was no exception. After arriving in Chang'an, a group of monks spread Buddhism and translate scriptures at Caotang Temple. However, in order to expand his military and suppress the wealthy monk group at that time, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty ordered all monks to return to secular farming and destroy the temples. Janagodo had no choice but to leave Chang'an.

Later, after the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, in the Zhou Dynasty, not only abolished the policy of banning Buddhism during the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but also vigorously promoted Buddhism. Therefore, he sent people to invite Janagodo back to China and lived in the royal temple of the Sui Dynasty, Daxingshan Temple in Chang'an. At that time, Daxingshan Temple was originally the largest Buddhist scripture translation site in the imperial capital. The arrival of Janagodo, who was proficient in Buddhism, made great contributions to the business of translation. From the nearly 20 years since he came to Chang'an again to his death, he organized a total of 192 volumes of scriptures, becoming a great monk that he had to remember in the historical development of Buddhism in the Sui Dynasty.



2. Damogupta

Damogupta was also one of the famous translators of the Sui Dynasty. He was also one of the famous "Three Masters of Kaihuang" in the Sui Dynasty. As a native of the Southern Indian Luoluo who spread Buddhism to China, he also traveled through mountains and rivers and went through difficulties and obstacles before he arrived in Chang'an alone in 590 AD.

After reaching Chang'an, Master Gupta also lived in the royal temple and Daxingshan Temple. At the beginning, he only assisted Janagodo in the translation of scriptures, and at the same time explained the principles of Buddhism to Chinese monks based on what he learned. Later, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui built a scripture translation museum for him alone in Shanglin Garden in Luoyang. Until his death, the translation work of scriptures and the dissemination of Buddhism were always persisted. Not only did the monks who studied Buddhism highly praised him, but the people around him respected him extremely. Over the past few decades, he continued to write, day and night, and under his leadership, he translated 9 scriptures to 46 volumes.



Three, Yancong

Yan Cong is a native of my country. As the first person in the translation of Buddhist scriptures in China in the history of Chinese Buddhism, he has written a lot throughout his life. Yan Cong became a monk since childhood, was smart and studious, and proficient in Sanskrit. He first followed Damogupta to translate Buddhist scriptures. During this process, he recorded what Gupta saw and heard from India and had a hard time, and wrote it into the book "Biography of the Western Kingdoms of the Great Sui Dynasty".

Later, after Yan Cong was the head of the Buddhist scriptures, in order to better promote Buddhism, he summarized the practical experience he had obtained during the years of translation of scriptures and formulated the "Ten Articles and Eight Preparations" translation theory of scriptures that had a great influence on later generations. Since then, the translation of Buddhist scriptures has had a relatively unified translation format. Throughout his life, Yan Cong presided over the translation of thousands of scriptures, making outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese Buddhism, and was praised as a "great master of translating scriptures."



Four, Huiyuan

Huiyuan, as a local Chinese monk in the Sui Dynasty, played an important role in the history of Chinese Buddhism and was known as the "Dragon among monks" in Buddhism. He was not only proficient in Buddhist scriptures, but also extremely courageous. During the process of Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou Dynasty, he ordered monks to return to secular life and destroying Buddhism, he stood up and fought for justice. Although he was unable to recover the trend of abolishing Buddha in the end, he was not afraid of the performance of the Dharma protector, and won the respect of countless people in the current and later generations.

Of course, as a master of Qi and Sui Dynasty, Master Huiyuan's contribution to the translation of Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist doctrines was also extremely important. After the abolition of the Buddha's name, he first went to Shaolin Temple to preside over the presidency and spread Buddhism. After the founding of the Sui Dynasty, he lived in Daxingshan Temple and wrote down Buddhist scriptures. In the past seventy years, he published more than 100 volumes of the translation of scriptures and started the lectures. With his unique Buddhist insights, he proposed the ideological theory of true nature and originated, and became a representative figure of the Dilun Sect and opened the doctrine for the Huayan Sect, one of the eight major Buddhist sects in later generations.



Five, Wisdom

Master Zhiyan, as one of the eight major sects of Chinese Buddhism and the actual founder of Tiantai Sect, made great contributions to Buddhism. You should know that in the hundreds of years after Buddhism was introduced to China, although Buddhism developed vigorously, it was also mottled, and various rational doctrines emerged one after another without being unified. Master Zhiyan took the Mahayana Buddhist classic "Lotus Sutra" as the center, and summarized and sorted out all the ideological systems and Buddhist doctrines in the past few hundred years of Buddhism's development in China, and proposed a theory of three thousand thoughts.

It has to be said that Master Zhiyan's Buddhist doctrine at that time reached a peak in the development of Buddhism. Through a large number of Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese, he conducted a large number of comprehensive analysis and comprehensive research, he not only understood the essence of Buddhist doctrine and explained the essence of Buddhist thought, but also combined the current situation of China at that time and local religious beliefs, and boldly and novelly pushed Buddhism to the peak of philosophy.



Six, Jizang

Ji Zang, as a master of the Three Theories of the Sui Dynasty, has gone through three dynasties, the Chen Kingdom, the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. Because of his profound Buddhist teachings and extraordinary knowledge of Buddhist teachings, he is praised by the royal family in every dynasty and is also well-known among the people.
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