An Xuan () was a
Parthia
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n layman credited with working alongside
An Shigao () and Yan Fotiao () in the translation of early
Buddhist texts
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in
Luoyang
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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;
2nd-century Buddhists
Iranian Buddhists
Han dynasty Buddhists
2nd-century Iranian people
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