Kamalaśīla
From Khyentse Lineage - A Tsadra Foundation Project
One of the most important Madhyamaka authors of late Indian Buddhism, a major representative of the Yogācāra-Madhyamaka synthesis, and a participant in the famous Bsam yas Debate. According to Tibetan doxographies, he was a proponent of the Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka. Although little is known about his life, according to Tibetan sources he was a monk and teacher at Nālandā. Tibetan sources also count him as one of three (together with Śāntarakṣita and Jñãnagarbha) “Eastern Svātantrikas” (rang rgyud shar gsum), suggesting that he was from Bengal. He was clearly a direct disciple of Śāntarakṣita, composing important commentaries on his teacher’s two major works, the Madhyamakālaṃkāra and the Tattvasaṃgraha. The latter commentary, which is extant in Sanskrit, is an important source for both Hindu and Buddhist philosophical positions in the eighth century. (Source: "Kamalaśīla." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 411. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
2 texts associated with this figure
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| Text | People | Deity/Cycle/Genre | Total pages | Folios |
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| སྒོམ་རིམ་བར་པའི་ས་བཅད། (མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 5, 596-599.) |
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po |
Genre: Outlines - sa bcad, Detailed Explanation - rnam bshad | 4 | 12b6 - 14a3 |
| སྒོམ་རིམ་བར་པའི་ས་བཅད། (མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 6, 1-5.) |
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po |
Genre: Outlines - sa bcad | 5 | 1a - 3a3 |
