Buddhajñānapāda

बुद्धज्ञानपाद

Buddhajñānapāda(770 - 820)

སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཞབས་

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Jñānapāda (autonym: Buddhajñāna, also referred to as Buddhaśrījñāna, *Buddhajñānapāda, *Śrījñānapāda; fl. c. 770–820 CE), was one of the most influential figures of mature Indian esoteric Buddhism. He is remembered first and foremost as the founder of the earlier of the two most important exegetical schools of the Guhyasamājatantra (→BEB I, Guhyasamāja), but he was also very likely a guru of some note in the Pāla court, the dominant power in East India at the time, and the first warden of the famous Vikramaśīla monastery. (Source: Brill Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online)