Dàshèngguāng 大乘光 (= Pǔguāng 普光)
Tang Cí’ēn-school scholar-monk; one of the immediate disciples of 玄奘 (along with 窺基 and others), and a major participant in the Cí’ēnsì 大慈恩寺 translation team. Often referred to in primary sources by the alternate name Pǔguāng 普光; the form Dàshèngguāng 大乘光 (“Mahāyāna-light”) used in the catalog of the KR6n0098 Dàshèng bǎifǎ míngmén lùn shū is an honorific elaboration of the same name. Lifedates not preserved; floruit c. 645–700, during the years from his association with Xuánzàng’s translation team in the late 640s through the post-Xuánzàng period at Cí’ēnsì.
Pǔguāng / Dàshèngguāng is best known as the author of the KR6q0027 Jù-shè lùn jì 俱舍論記 (T1821) — a major thirty-fascicle commentary on the Abhidharmakośa — one of the principal sources for early-Tang Cí’ēn-school Abhidharma scholarship and the canonical commentary on Xuánzàng’s translation of the Kośa. He is also the author of KR6n0098 Dà-shèng bǎi-fǎ míng-mén lùn shū 大乘百法明門論疏 (T44n1837) — the principal Tang commentary on Vasubandhu’s hundred-dharma catalog (KR6n0096) — and several shorter works.
His position at Cí’ēn-sì was that of a senior translator-assistant under Xuánzàng; he is named in the colophons of multiple Xuánzàng translations, including the Yogācārabhūmi and the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-sūtra. After Xuánzàng’s death in 664 he continued at Cí’ēn-sì as a scholar in his own right, producing his major commentaries.
Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001244.