An Xuan () was a
Parthian layman credited with working alongside
An Shigao () and Yan Fotiao () in the translation of early
Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts a ...
in
Luoyang in
Later Han China.
Bibliography
* Nattier, Jan (2008)
A Guide to the Earliest Chinese Buddhist Translations: Texts from the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms Periods Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica, IRIAB Vol. X, 89-94;
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2nd-century Buddhists
Iranian Buddhists
Han dynasty Buddhists
2nd-century Iranian people