Chánnà Juéduō 禪那崛多 / Jñānagupta (c. 523–600)
A major Suí-dynasty translator of Mahāyāna Buddhist scriptures into Chinese, conventionally known under the variant transliterations Chánnà Juéduō 禪那崛多, Shénajuéduō 闍那崛多, and Shénajíduō 闍那笈多 — all rendering the Sanskrit Jñānagupta. Born in Gandhāra 犍陀羅 c. 523 to a brahmin family that had converted to Buddhism; took monastic ordination in his youth and trained in the great northwestern Indian Buddhist scholastic centres of the period. He travelled to China c. 559 with a group of monastic colleagues, served at the Northern Zhōu and then Suí courts, and became one of the principal Buddhist translation figures of the Suí establishment under Wéndì 文帝 (r. 581–604).
His translation corpus is substantial — more than thirty works survive in the Chinese canon under his name, including the Tiān-pǐn miào-fǎ lián-huá jīng 添品妙法蓮華經 (T264, the supplemented version of the Lotus Sūtra) co-translated with Dharmagupta in 601, and a number of short Pure Land texts. The 《十二禮》 Shí-èr lǐ KR6p0080 (X057, 1 juǎn) — a sequence of twelve devotional verses ascribed to Lóngshù 龍樹 / Nāgārjuna and described as Jñānagupta’s “别譯” bié-yì (alternate translation) — is preserved in the Xù-zàng-jīng and is one of the principal Pure Land devotional texts of his corpus.
He died c. 600 at age 78. DILA Authority A005010.