Hui Lin

Hui Lin 慧琳 (737 – 820 CE) was a Chinese translator and Sanskrit scholar.

Born in Kashgar,[1] he was author of the Yíqièjīngyīnyì《一切經音義》, written between 783 and 807 CE,[2] the earliest Chinese lexicographical work to distinguish the labiodentals from the bilabial initials.

References
  1. Martha Cheung (3 Jun 2014). An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation (Version 1). Routledge. p. 209. ISBN 9781317639282. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. Sun, Jian Wei. 孫建偉. 2016.〈《慧琳音義》的作者、成書、流傳及版本綜論〉，《重慶師範大學學報（哲學社會科學版）》2016.4:34-40。


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