Kashyapamtanga
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<poem> Kashyapamtanga; Kasyapa Matanga was an Indian Buddhist monk who introduced Buddhism to China in the 1st century CE.
~25 A.D.
came from India
regarded as the first translator for Buddhist sutras in China
translated 5 sutras, but only 1 extant -- "Sutra of Forty-two Chapters"
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