Vinītaruci 毘尼多流支 (also written 毗尼多流支), Indic translator active in late-Northern-Wèi through Suí. Sanskrit: Vinītaruci (“Disciplined-Joy”); Chinese gloss Mièxǐ 滅喜. DILA Authority A001448. Born in unrecorded year (probably c. 494); died c. 594, aged perhaps 100 or so.
Came from southern India in the late sixth century. Active in the Suí court translation bureau, where he produced the Dà-shèng fāng-guǎng zǒng-chí jīng 大乘方廣總持經 (KR6d0117, T9n0275, 1 juan) — a Mahāyāna dhāraṇī sūtra closely related to the Lotus Sūtra tradition.
After his Chinese productive period, Vinītaruci traveled to Vietnam (then Jiāozhōu 交州), where he founded the first major Buddhist school in Vietnamese history — the Vinītaruci lineage of Vietnamese Thiền (Chán) Buddhism. He died at the Pháp Vân tự 法雲寺 in modern northern Vietnam in 594 CE. The Vinītaruci lineage in Vietnam is one of the foundational Buddhist transmissions in Southeast-Asian Buddhist history.
Sources: Lìdài sānbǎo jì 歷代三寶紀 (T2034); Cuìbiān thiền uyển tập anh 禪苑集英 (Vietnamese Chán records); DILA A001448; Fóguāng 3848.