Shīhù 施護 (Skt. Dānapāla) was a North-Indian monk of the tenth and early-eleventh century, a native of Uḍyāna (烏填曩, in modern Swat valley, Pakistan) and a fellow of the Indra-palace Monastery (帝釋宮寺) in his home country. According to the Dà-zhōng-xiángfú fǎbǎo lù 大中祥符法寶錄 and the Sòng huìyào jíběn 宋會要輯本 (道釋 2/5–6), in Tàipíng-Xīngguó 太平興國 5 (980) he accompanied his elder colleague Tiānxīzāi 天息災 (later renamed Fǎxián 法賢) to the Sòng capital at Kāifēng, where the two were granted the purple robe by Sòng Tàizōng. In Tàipíng-Xīngguó 7 (982), with the inauguration of the Institute for the Translation of Sūtras (譯經院), Shīhù was installed as one of the three principal translators (with Fǎxián and Fǎtiān 法天) and was given the title 傳法大師 (“Master Who Transmits the Dharma”). The Fǎbǎo lù credits him with 115 translations in 244 fascicles — a body of work that, alongside that of his two senior colleagues, accounts for the bulk of the Sòng Institute’s output and constitutes the largest single late-medieval addition to the Chinese canon. He died in Tiānxǐ 天禧 1 / 12 (= late 1017 / early 1018) and was given the posthumous name Míngwù 明悟.
His translations include the [[KR6a0008|Dà Jiāngù póluómén yuánqǐ jīng 大堅固婆羅門緣起經]] (T8, parallel to Cháng Āhán 典尊經), the [[KR6a0010|Báiyī Jīnchuáng èr póluómén yuánqǐ jīng 白衣金幢二婆羅門緣起經]] (T10, parallel to Cháng Āhán 小緣經), the Dàjí fǎmén jīng 大集法門經 (T12, parallel to Cháng Āhán 眾集經 / Saṅgīti-sutta), and a large body of prajñāpāramitā, dhāraṇī and tantric translations including the Biànzhào bōrě bōluómì jīng 遍照般若波羅蜜經 (T242), the Bǎosheng tuóluóní jīng 寶生陀羅尼經 (T1412), the Bǎodài tuóluóní jīng 寶帶陀羅尼經 (T1377) and many others. DILA Buddhist Person Authority A000844.