Person: Nie Chengyuan, 聶承遠

Boucher (2006): 20-21, n. 40. "By all accounts Dharmarakṣa’s closest disciple....Suzuki Hiromi has discussed the possible influence of Nie Chengyuan's scribal duties upon translation vocabulary choices in Dharmarakṣa’s corpus", citing Suzuki (1995).

Date: fl. ca. 290-306