Jñanagarbha

Jñanagarbha (Skt. Jñānagarbha; Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ་, yeshe nyingpo, Wyl. ye shes snying po) was an 8th century master from Nalanda who belonged to the Svatantrika Madhyamika school. He was a student of Shrigupta and the teacher and ordaining master of Shantarakshita.

Writings

• Distinguishing the Two Truths
• a commentary on the Samdhinirmochana Sutra

Further Reading

• M.D. Eckel, Jñānagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction between the Two Truths: An Eighth-Century Handbook of Madhyamaka Philosophy, N.Y. State University Press (New York 1987).