(d. 434) Also called Tao-sheng. A Chinese priest and disciple of Kumārajīva who insisted, on the basis of his study of Fa-hsien’s Chinese version of the Nirvana Sutra, that even an icchantika, or person of incorrigible disbelief, can attain Buddhahood. For this, he was banished from the community of priests to a mountain in Su-chou. Later, when the Nirvana Sutra was translated by Dharmaraksha into Chinese, Tao-sheng’s assertion was verified.
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Sotoshu, Glossaire (Anglais) | SOTOZEN-NET, 2023.