Dharmatrāta
Dharmatrāta (T. Chos skyob; C. Damoduoluo 達摩多羅). The proper name of two well-known masters of the Abhidharma.[1]
The first is referred to "Dharmatrāta I" in scholarship, and was also known as Bhadante Dharmatrāta.[1] He was a Dārṣṭāntika from northwest India,[1][2] who authored a commentary on the Udānavarga.[2] According to the Chinese translator Xuanzang, he was one of the four great Abhidharma scholars who participated in the Fourth Buddhist council conveyed by king Kanishka (r. c. 144–178 CE).[1] (The other three scholars being Vasumitra, Ghoṣa[ka], and Buddhadeva.) The views of these four scholars are represented in the Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā.[1]
The second is known as "Dharmatrāta II." He was an orthodox Sarvāstivādin who flourished circa the fourth century CE.[1][2] He is said to be the author of the Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya. He also wrote the Pañcavastuvibhāṣā (C. Wushi piposha lun; “Exposition of the Five-Fold Classification”), a commentary on the first chapter of Vasumitra’s Prakaraṇapāda, one of the seven major texts of the Sarvastivada Abhidharma.[1]
Dharmatrāta II is also credited as the author of the Damoduoluo chan jing (“Dhyāna Sūtra of Dharmatrāta”), a meditation manual that was influential in early Chinese Buddhism.[1]
Notes
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University- Li-Kouang, Lin (1949), Introduction au Compendium de la Loi (Dharma-Samuccaya). L'aide mémoire de la vraie Loi (Saddharma-Smrtyupasthana-Sutra). Recherche sur un Sutra développé du Petit Véhicule, Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve