kumarayana

Kumārāyana (also Kiu-mo-yen) was an intelligent man from a noble family in India, whose grandfather Ta-to was supposed to have had a great reputation. Kumārāyana renounced his wealth to become a Buddhist monk, and left India, crossing to the Pamirs to arrive in Kucha. There he became the royal priest, and the sister of the king, Jīva, fell in love with him. They married to produced a son called Kumārajīva who, largely under Jīva's guidance, went on to become an erudite Buddhist scholar and translator.

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