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Lü Guang
Lü Guang was a Di general of Former Qin whom the emperor Fu Jian sent to the Tarim Basin in 382. He took Kucha in 384 and carried off the Buddhist monk and translator Kumarajiva. When Former Qin collapsed after the Battle of the Fei River, he founded Later Liang at Guzang in the Hexi Corridor in 386, taking the title Heavenly King in 396. He died in 400.
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