Traditional accounts

The earliest biographical sources on Nagarjuna are associated with the Kuchan translator monk Kumarajiva (344-413) and his circle of scholars. They include the Zhu weimo-jie jing (?????; T. 1775, a commentary on the Vimalakirti), the Maming pusa zhuan (?????, Tradition of Asvaghosa Bodhisattva, a combined biography of Nagarjuna and Asvaghosa) and also various prefaces