# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhi-qian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:33:09.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhi-qian"
name: "Zhi Qian"
slug: "zhi-qian"
description: "Zhi Qian was a Chinese Buddhist layman of Yuezhi ancestry who translated a wide range of Indian Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. He was the grandson of an immigrant from the country of the Great Yuezhi, an area that overlapped to at least some extent with the territory of the Kushan Empire. According to the Chinese custom of the time, he used the ethnonym \"Zhi\" as his surname, to indicate his foreign ancestry."
tagline: "3rd century Buddhist monk and translator active in the Kingdom of Wu"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "101"
deathDate: "300"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.416632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%94%AF%E8%B0%A6"
    title: "支谦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%87%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "زهى كيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Qian"
    title: "Zhi Qian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Qian"
    title: "Zhi Qian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Qian"
    title: "Zhi Qian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zh%C4%AB_Qi%C4%81n"
    title: "Zhī Qiān"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%94%AF%E8%AC%99"
    title: "支謙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Qian"
    title: "Zhi Qian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Qian"
    title: "Zhi Qian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Khi%C3%AAm"
    title: "Chi Khiêm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%94%AF%E8%AC%99"
    title: "支謙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2326349"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump