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Nanam Shyang Yeshé Dé (Tib. སྣ་ནམ་ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་, Wyl. sna nam zhang ye shes sde; Skt. Jñanasena) (mid 8th cent. - early 9th cent.) — one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche. He translated the Madhyamakalankara with Surendrabodhi. In all, he assisted with the translation of more than 300 hundred texts that now appear in the Kangyur and Tengyur, including Prajnaparamita Sutras, tantras and dharanis, and treatises on Madhyamika, Chittamatra and logic.

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-[[Image:Nanam Yeshe.jpg|frame|Nanam Zhang Yeshé De]]
+[[Image:Nanam Yeshe.jpg|frame|The great lotsawa Yeshé Dé]]
-'''Nanam Zhang Yeshé De''' - one of the [[twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche]]
+'''Nanam Shyang Yeshé Dé''' (Tib. [[སྣ་ནམ་ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''sna nam zhang ye shes sde''; Skt. ''Jñanasena'') (mid 8th cent. - early 9th cent.) — one of the [[twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche]]. He translated the ''[[Madhyamakalankara]]'' with [[Surendrabodhi]]. In all, he assisted with the translation of more than 300 hundred texts that now appear in the [[Kangyur]] and [[Tengyur]], including [[Prajnaparamita]] [[Sutra]]s, [[tantra]]s and [[dharani]]s, and [[treatise]]s on [[Madhyamika]], [[Chittamatra]] and [[logic]].
+==Writings==
+*Varieties of View (ལྟ་བའི་ཁྱེད་པར་, ''lta ba'i khyad par'')
+:{{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS36624$W23703|ལྟ་བའི་ཁྱེད་པར་, ''lta ba'i khyad par''}}
+==Further Reading==
+*Sherab Rhaldi, ''Ye-Shes sDe: Tibetan Scholar and Saint'' in ''Bulletin of Tibetology'' vol. 38, 2002 [http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_2002_01_04.pdf (Available here)]
+==External Links==
+*{{TBRC|P8205|TBRC Profile}}
+*[http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Nanam-Yeshe-De/10904 Biography at Treasury of Lives]
 [[Category:Twenty-five Disciples]]
+[[Category:Lotsawas]]