Mid-Táng Indian Tantric master and translator; Vajrabodhi (Jīn-gāng-zhì 金剛智 = “Vajra-Wisdom”; also 金剛菩提 / 跋日羅菩提 = Vajrabodhi). Lifedates 669 – 741 (DILA: born 669, died Kāi-yuán 29 = 741, age 73 — modern scholarly consensus follows this; an alternative tradition gives Kāi-yuán 20 = 732, age 71). Native of South India (DILA: 南天竺 / 南印度). With Śubhakarasiṃha 善無畏 (637–735) and his own disciple Amoghavajra 不空 (705–774), Vajrabodhi is one of the Three Great Tantric Masters (sān dà shì 三大士 / kāi-yuán sān dà-shì 開元三大士) who established the Tángmì 唐密 / zhēn-yán 真言 esoteric Buddhist tradition in China during the Kāi-yuán reign of Xuán-zōng. His translation of the Adhyardhaśatikā Prajñāpāramitā / Naya-pāramitā as Jīn-gāng-dǐng yú-jiā lǐ-qù bān-ruò jīng 金剛頂瑜伽理趣般若經 (KR6c0118, T8 no. 241) — one of the family of the Lǐ-qù-jīng 理趣經 — is a foundational text of the Vajra-realm (vajradhātu) Tantric tradition. Court title: Kāi-fǔ yí-tóng sān-sī Dà-hóng-jiào sān-zàng 開府儀同三司大弘教三藏.