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Kumarajiva : A Buddhist Monk on the Silk Road - Kunwar Narain

Kumarajiva

A Buddhist Monk on the Silk Road

By: Kunwar Narain, Alok Bhalla (Translator)

Hardcover | 30 June 2025

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Traversing the Silk Road in the fourth century ce, Kumarajiva, the son of a Kashmiri Buddhist teacher and a Chinese Princess, radically transformed the history of Buddhism and East Asian culture by translating Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit and Pali into Chinese. His odyssey along the Silk Road in times of territorial wars and dynastic changes was in search of knowledge of the Self and the Buddhaâs moral teachings about the wisdom of following the âmiddle pathâ to nirvana, the final liberation from the cycles of rebirth. In Kumarajiva, Kunwar Narain imagines the life of the enlightened Buddhist scholar and monk about whom very little is known. Narainâs elegant and richly composed long narrative poem is a meditation on the mysteries of life and universal truths that hold meaning for all times.

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