法救 (1) Dharmatrāta. Transliterated as Damoduoluo 達摩多羅. The first patriarch of the Sarvāstivāda school in India, who probably lived around the second century CE. He taught that all things in the three worlds were truly existent and distinct from each other. (2) There is sometimes confusion with another Dharmatrāta, who apparently lived in India around the fourth century AD, also a Sarvāstivādin. He is the putative author of the Zaepitan xinlun 雜阿毘曇心論.

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