Bodhiruci - Bodhiruci

Date of birth and death unknown. A 6th century monk and translator from North India. His Sanskrit name was Bodhiruci. He was also called Douki and Kakuai. In 508 (Yongping 1), he came to Luoyang and lived at the Yongning Temple, where he worked on translation. He translated 39 volumes and 127 volumes, including the Treatise on the Ten Stages of Teaching, the Entering into the Lankavataka Sutra, the Diamond Prajnaparamita Sutra, and the Treatise on the Sutra of Immeasurable Life. He also translated Donmusai's Mahayana Yizhang into Hu and sent it to the Western Regions. Later, he was considered the founder of the Jiron sect, and was also revered as one of the founders of Pure Land Buddhism because he bestowed the "Amida Sutra" on Donluan and translated Vasubandhu's "Amida Sutra Commentary." A monk from roughly the same era as Bodhidharma, Ruci hated him and there is a legend that he and his disciple, the monk Koto (Eko, 468-537/538), plotted to poison him to death.

[Arata Okayama April 18, 2017]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

生没年不詳。6世紀、北インド出身の翻訳僧。サンスクリット名ボディルチBodhiruci。また道希(どうき)、覚愛(かくあい)ともいう。508年（永平1）洛陽(らくよう)にきて、永寧(えいねい)寺に住して翻訳に従事、『十地経論(じゅうじきょうろん)』『入楞伽経(にゅうりょうがきょう)』『金剛般若経(こんごうはんにゃきょう)』『無量寿経論(むりょうじゅきょうろん)』など39部127巻を訳出した。また曇無最(どんむさい)の『大乗義章』を胡語(こご)に転訳して西域(せいいき)に送った。後世、地論(じろん)宗の祖とされ、また曇鸞(どんらん)に『観無量寿経』を授け、世親(せしん)の『無量寿経論』を伝訳したため、浄土教の一祖と仰がれた。達磨(だるま)とほぼ同時代の僧で、流支は彼を憎み、弟子の光統(こうとう)律師（慧光(えこう)。468―537／538）とともに、毒殺を企てたという伝説もある。

［丘山　新　2017年4月18日］

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