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KLONG-CHEN RAB-'BYAMS-PA
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(c.344–413 CE).
One of the greatest of Buddhist translators. Kum
raj
va, who had grown up under the influence of the
H
nay
na
, became acquainted with the Mah
y
na teachings and was converted to them. Captured by Chinese in 383, he studied Chinese until he was liberated and welcomed to Changan in 401, where he spent the rest of his life teaching and translating. He rendered many of the most important Mah
y
na s
tras and treatises into elegant and accurate Chinese.