Gunabhadra (394–468) (Sanskrit: गुणभद्र, simplified Chinese: 求那跋陀罗; traditional Chinese: 求那跋陀羅; pinyin: Qiúnàbátuóluó; Wade–Giles: Ch'iu-na-pa-t'o-lo) was a monk and translator of Mahayana Buddhism from Magadha, Central India.
Gunabhadra was said to have originally been born into a Brahman family but studied the Miśrakābhidharmahṛdaya under a Mahayana master which led to his conversion to Buddhism.
[2] He traveled to China by sea with Gunavarma in 435 after first visiting Sri Lanka.
They were both treated as honored guests by Emperor Wen of Liu Song, the ruler of South China at the time.
In China, he translated one of the key Mahayana sutras, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, from Sanskrit to Chinese, and Vekhanasa Sutra, which forms "a volume from the Issaikyō (a Buddhist corpus), commonly known as Jingo-ji kyō," as it was handed down at the Jingo-ji temple.