Kasyapa Matanga

Also known as Matanga · Shemoteng

Kasyapa Matanga, also written Shemoteng, was a monk from central India. Huijiao's Biographies of Eminent Monks says that when Emperor Ming of Han sent Cai Yin and others to India for the Buddhist teaching, he came to Luoyang at their request, and the emperor housed him outside the west gate, the later White Horse Temple; tradition says a white horse carried the scriptures and images, giving the temple its name. An old record cited there credits him with the Sutra in Forty-two Sections. He died in Luoyang. His dates are unrecorded; tradition puts his arrival in 67.