Mǎmíng púsà 馬鳴菩薩 (*Aśvaghoṣa, “Horse-Voice Bodhisattva”; conventionally c. 80–150 CE), Indian Buddhist poet, dramatist, and bodhisattva-class master, traditional figure at the Kuṣāṇa court of King Kaniṣka. Aśvaghoṣa is the foundational Sanskrit Buddhist literary author, credited with the Buddhacarita (the celebrated Sanskrit Buddha-biography epic, surviving in Sanskrit chapters 1–14, with the remainder preserved in Chinese as [[KR6b0049|Fó suǒ-xíng zàn 佛所行讚 (T192)]] and Tibetan), the Saundarānanda, the Sūtrālaṃkāra (large-scale avadāna-anthology preserved in Chinese as [[KR6b0058|Dà zhuāng-yán lùn jīng 大莊嚴論經 (T201)]]), and the Dà-chéng qǐ-xìn lùn 大乘起信論 (the Awakening of Faith, T1666 — the attribution to Aśvaghoṣa is, however, doubted in modern scholarship).
His Buddha-biography Buddhacarita established the model for Indic Buddhist hagiographic literature; his bodhisattva-poetic style — kāvya applied to Buddhist subject-matter — was foundational for later Sanskrit Buddhist kāvya writers including Āryaśūra. Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001045.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6b0049 Fó suǒ-xíng zàn (T192, Buddhacarita); KR6b0058 Dà zhuāng-yán lùn jīng (T201, Sūtrālaṃkāra); and several other texts.