An Xuan
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An Xuan (C. 安玄) (fl. 168-189[1]) was a Parthian layman credited with working alongside An Shigao and Yan Fotiao (Chinese: 嚴佛調; pinyin: Yán Fúdiào) in the translation of Buddhist texts in Luoyang in Later Han China.
With Yan Fotiao, he is credited with an early translation of the Ugraparipṛcchā.
Notes
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Parthia
Bibliography
- Nattier, Jan (2008). A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms Periods, Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica, IRIAB Vol. X, 89-94; ISBN 978-4-904234-00-6
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