ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། | Glossary of Terms

Indian philosopher and commentator (fl. second century), founder of the Madhyamaka school from his writings based principally on the Prajñā­pāramitā sūtras, and traditionally said to have brought the Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines from the realm of the nāgas to the human realm.

The second- or third-century master whose teaching forms the basis of the Madhyamaka tradition.

Second- or third-century Indian master whose writings formed the basis for the Madhyamaka tradition. In following centuries there were other masters and authors of the same name, and in Tibet all their works became attributed to one person.

Second- or third-century Indian master whose writings formed the basis for the Madhyamaka tradition.

Saint, scholar, and mystic of Buddhist India from about four hundred years after the Buddha; discoverer of the Mahāyāna sūtras and author of the fundamental Madhyamaka treatise.

A Indian author who presumably lived in the ninth century or later. He composed two practices of Tārā preserved in the Degé Tengyur.

The famed Madhyamika scholar.

Second- or third-century Indian master whose writings formed the basis for the Madhyamaka tradition.