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'''Jinamitra''' (Tib. རྒྱལ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་, [[Wyl.]] ''rgyal ba'i bshes gnyen'') was a Kashmiri [[pandita|pandit]], who went to Tibet at the request of [[King Tri Ralpachen]] to take part in the enormous project of translating texts in the [[Kangyur]] and [[Tengyur]] directly from Sanskrit into Tibetan. Together with the Tibetan translator [[Shyang Yeshé Dé|Yeshé Dé]], he is said to be responsible for translating 160 texts in the Kangyur and also many texts in the Tengyur. 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>
'''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>


==References==
==References==

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]

References

  1. 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.
  2. Butön's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet, Snow Lion Publications 2013.