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'''Abhayakaragupta''' (Skt. ''Abhayākaragupta''; Tib. འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་སྦས་པ་, ''jikmé jungné bepa'', [[Wyl.]] ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>jigs med <nowiki>'</nowiki>byung gnas sbas pa'') (d. c.1125) was a Bengali scholar who taught at [[Vikramashila]] and | '''Abhayakaragupta''' (Skt. ''Abhayākaragupta''; Tib. འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་སྦས་པ་, ''jikmé jungné bepa'', [[Wyl.]] ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>jigs med <nowiki>'</nowiki>byung gnas sbas pa'') (d. c.1125) was a Bengali scholar who taught at [[Vikramashila]] and Odantapuri. He was a student of [[Ratnakarashanti]]. He composed works on both [[sutra]] and [[tantra]] and collaborated with Tibetan translators on more than 130 texts. | ||
==Writings== | ==Writings== | ||
Latest revision as of 10:40, 14 January 2025
Abhayakaragupta (Skt. Abhayākaragupta; Tib. འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་སྦས་པ་, jikmé jungné bepa, Wyl. 'jigs med 'byung gnas sbas pa) (d. c.1125) was a Bengali scholar who taught at Vikramashila and Odantapuri. He was a student of Ratnakarashanti. He composed works on both sutra and tantra and collaborated with Tibetan translators on more than 130 texts.
Writings
- Ornament of the Intention of the Sage (Skt. Munimatālaṃkāra; Wyl. thub pa'i dgongs pa'i rgyan), Toh 3903, in the madhyamaka section of the Tengyur.
- Moonlight of Points (Skt. Marmakaumudī), a commentary on the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines, Toh 3805, in the prajnaparamita section of the Tengyur.
Further Reading
- David Seyfort Ruegg, The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981, pp. 114-115
- Matthew Kapstein, 'Abhayākaragupta on the Two Truths' in Reason's Traces, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001, pp. 393-415
