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'''Jinamitra''' (Tib. རྒྱལ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་, Wyl. ''rgyal ba'i bshes gnyen'') was a Kashmiri [[pandita | '''Jinamitra''' (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱལ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ or ཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ།, [[Wyl.]] ''rgyal ba'i bshes gnyen'' or ''dzi na mi tra'') was a Kashmiri [[pandita]], who was invited to Tibet during the reign of [[King Trisong Detsen]] (r. 742-98 ᴄᴇ) and was involved with the translation of nearly two hundred texts, continuing into the reign of [[King Tri Ralpachen]] (r. 815-38 ᴄᴇ). He was among the small group of panditas responsible for the [[Mahavyutpatti]] Sanskrit–Tibetan dictionary.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | ||
He also passed on the teaching of monastic discipline, including its pith instructions.<ref>[[Butön Rinchen Drup| Butön's]] ''History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet'', Snow Lion Publications 2013.</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:48, 9 February 2022
Jinamitra (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱལ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ or ཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ།, Wyl. rgyal ba'i bshes gnyen or dzi na mi tra) was a Kashmiri pandita, who was invited to Tibet during the reign of King Trisong Detsen (r. 742-98 ᴄᴇ) and was involved with the translation of nearly two hundred texts, continuing into the reign of King Tri Ralpachen (r. 815-38 ᴄᴇ). He was among the small group of panditas responsible for the Mahavyutpatti Sanskrit–Tibetan dictionary.[1]
He also passed on the teaching of monastic discipline, including its pith instructions.[2]