Kāng Sēnghuì 康僧會 (d. Tàikāng 太康 1 = 280 CE), Sogdian-Vietnamese Buddhist master, the founder of the Three-Kingdoms Wú 吳 Buddhist tradition at Jiànkāng 建康. According to the Chū sānzàng jì jí 出三藏記集 (T2145, juan 13) and the Gāosēng zhuàn 高僧傳 (T2059, 325a–326c), his ancestors were Sogdian (康居 = Kāngjū / Sogdiana); his father had migrated to Jiāozhǐ 交趾 (modern northern Vietnam, then under Wú jurisdiction) for the silk trade, where Sēnghuì was born. After his parents’ death he took ordination, mastered the Buddhist canon as well as the Confucian and Daoist classics, and in Chìwū 赤烏 10 (247 CE) travelled north to the Wú capital Jiànkāng, where he persuaded the emperor Sūn Quán 孫權 of the truth of Buddhism by producing a Buddha-relic; Sūn Quán erected the Jiànchū sì 建初寺 — the first Buddhist monastery in the lower-Yangzi region — for him. Under Sūn Hào 孫皓 (r. 264–280) he again won imperial favour after a period of court hostility. He died in Sūn Hào’s Tàikāng 1 (280), the year of Wú’s conquest by Jìn.
His translation work in the Wú included [[KR6b0001|Liù-dù jí jīng 六度集經 (T152)]] — the Ṣaṭpāramitā-saṃgraha-sūtra, a celebrated jātaka anthology arranged by the six perfections, his most influential surviving work — together with translations of the Wú-pǐn jīng 吳品經, the Cháng-zhě nán-tí jīng 長者難提經 (lost), and others; some of his Chinese exegesis on the Ānāpāna-smṛti (Ān-bān shǒu-yì jīng 安般守意經) survives in fragmentary form. He is also credited as the master whose oral exegesis is preserved in [[KR6a0162|Yīn-chí-rù jīng zhù (T1694)]] by his lay disciple 陳慧. His missionary impact on the lower Yangzi was foundational: he is the figure through whom the southern Buddhist intellectual tradition takes shape in the third century. Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001233.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6b0001 Liùdù jí jīng; cited as oral master in KR6a0162 Yīnchírù jīng zhù.