Zhi Qian
Zhi Qian (;
fl. 222–252 CE) was a Chinese Buddhist layman of
Yuezhi ancestry who translated a wide range of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. He was the grandson (or according to another source, the son) 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. According to the
Chinese custom of the time, he used the
ethnonym "Zhi" as his surname, to indicate his foreign ancestry.
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