Zūn-zhě Shān-xián 尊者山賢 (“Venerable Mountain-Sage”; *Ārya-Sambhadra / Vasubhadra; lifedates unknown) is the Chinese calque-name under which Saṃghadeva’s 391 CE Lúshān retranslation [[KR6a0158|Sānfǎ-dù lùn (T1506)]] presents the author of the Tridharmaka-śāstra. The same figure appears in the earlier Yè-sì translation [[KR6a0157|Sì-āhán-mù chāo jiě (T1505)]] under the transliterated form 婆素跋陀 (Pó-sù-bá-tuó). The bifurcation of name is a translation-style difference between Dàoān’s Yè-sì circle (which preferred transliteration) and Saṃghadeva’s Lúshān circle (which preferred semantic calque): 山 = saṃ- (read as related to sumeru-class “mountain” lexis) + 賢 = bhadra. Both names refer to a single Indic figure.
Cross-reference: see 婆素跋陀 for the principal biographical and bibliographical entry. This note exists chiefly because the catalog meta of T1506 names the author as 尊者山賢 and the wikilink in KR6a0158 points here.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6a0158 Sānfǎdù lùn (T1506, as 尊者山賢); see also KR6a0157 Sìāhánmù chāo jiě (T1505, as 婆素跋陀).