About Liyan (Buddhist monk)

Lìyán' was a Buddhist monk (沙門) from Kucha. According to the Biographies of eminent monks compiled during the Song period, he was originally from Kucha. He was ordained in 726, and is said to have mastered a wide range of Buddhist texts and the Chinese classics. He acted an amanuensis to the Indian Buddhist monk Dharmacandra when he translated Pǔbiànzhìcáng bōrěbōluómìduō xīnjīng, a version of the Prajñāpāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra in 738 CE.