page_title: Amoghavajra
hierarchical_section_title: Amoghavajra
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Amoghavajra, 14 century, National Museum, Tokyo
context_page_description: Amoghavajra was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history and is acknowledged as one of the Eight Patriarchs of the Doctrine in Shingon Buddhism.
context_section_description: Amoghavajra (Sanskrit: अमोघवज्र Amoghavajra; traditional Chinese: 不空; pinyin: Bùkōng; Japanese: Fukū; Korean: 불공; Vietnamese: Bất Không, 705–774) was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history and is acknowledged as one of the Eight Patriarchs of the Doctrine in Shingon Buddhism.
caption: Portrait of Amoghavajra, 14th century, National Museum, Tokyo.
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