Bodhiseṇa / Pú-tí-xiān 菩提仙 (704–760) — Indian monk from Nālandā, more famous in Japanese tradition than in Chinese, where he is known as Bodaisenna ボダイセンナ (Jp. read 菩提僊那 with the xiān graph 仙/僊). Native of central India; his Sanskrit name is given in the colophon of KR6j0409 in transcription as 菩提㗚使淨智金剛 (=Bodhi-rici-pure-wisdom-vajra, conventionally identified with Bodhiseṇa). The text describes his lineage as 「中天竺國大那爛陀寺戒行沙門」 — i.e., a Vinaya-observant śramaṇa of Nālandā.
He travelled with Daoxuan 道璿 from China, then to Japan in 736, where he became one of the most influential Indian-Buddhist masters of the early Nara period. He performed the famous “eye-opening” consecration (kaigen-shiki 開眼式) of the Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji in 752 — one of the central ceremonial events in early Japanese Buddhist history — and was given the title 僧正 (Sōjō, “Bishop”). He died at Daian-ji 大安寺 in Nara in 760.
His Chinese-language translations are few but important: he is named as the “Indian master” (三藏) on whose oral version the Chinese rendering of the Mahā-sage-Mañjuśrī Eight-Syllable Dhāraṇī (KR6j0409, T1184) was made by his disciple-scribe Yì-yún 義雲 (the so-called Bù-kōng parallel chain). The colophon explicitly disambiguates: 「三藏名此漢地名菩提仙」 — “the Tripiṭaka-master’s name; in the Chinese lands he is called Pú-tí-xiān”. A second translation under his name is the parallel re-edition T1184/X181 (KR6j0425), preserved in the Japanese-canon Manji Zokuzōkyō.
He is the most consequential Indian master of the early-eighth-century transmission to Japan, and a key node in the East Asian dissemination of Indian Esoteric Mañjuśrī literature.