Kang Senghui

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Kang Senghui (traditional: 康僧會; simplified: 康僧会; pinyin: Kāng Sēnghuì; ?-280), was a Buddhist monk and translator during the Three Kingdoms period of ancient China. He was born in Jiaozhi (交趾; modern day northern Vietnam), in the extreme south of the Chinese empire. He was the son of a Sogdian merchant.

Kang contributed to the diffusion and translation of Buddhist sutras into the Chinese language.

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