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དྷརྨཱ་ཀ་ར། | Glossary of Terms

    དྷརྨཱ་ཀ་ར།

    d+harmA ka ra

    Dharmākara

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Publications: 4
Translation by Robert Miller
  • Dharmākara
  • དྷརྨཱ་ཀ་ར།
  • dharmA ka ra
  • Dharmākara

Butön includes the Kashmiri preceptor Dharmākara in his list of ninety-three paṇḍitas invited to Tibet to assist in the translation of the Buddhist scriptures. Tāranātha dates Dharmākara to the rule of *Vanapāla, son of Dharmapāla. With Paltsek, he translated two of Kalyāṇamitra’s works on Vinaya, the Vinayapraśnakārikā (’dul ba dri ba’i tshig le’ur byas pa, Toh 4134, Degé Tengyur, vol. SU, folios 70.b.3–74.b.5) and the Vinayapraśnaṭīkā (’dul ba dri ba rgya cher ’grel pa, Toh 4135, Degé Tengyur, vol. SU, folios 74.b.5–132.a.2).

Translation by Fumi Yao
  • Dharmākara
  • དྷརྨཱ་ཀ་ར།
  • d+harmA ka ra
  • Dharmākara

One of the translators of the Tibetan Vinayavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Dharmākara
  • དྷརྨཱ་ཀ་ར།
  • d+harmA ka ra
  • Dharmākara

Butön includes the Kashmiri abbot Dharmākara in his list of ninety-three paṇḍitas invited to Tibet to assist in the translation of the Buddhist scriptures. Tāranātha dates Dharmākara to the rule of *Vanapāla, son of Dharmapāla. With Paltsek, he translated two of Kalyāṇamitra’s works on Vinaya, the Vinaya­praśnakārikā (’dul ba dri ba’i tshig le’ur byas pa, Toh 4134) and the Vinaya­praśnaṭīkā (’dul ba dri ba rgya cher ’grel pa, Toh 4135).

Translation by Krisztina Teleki
  • Dharmākara
  • དྷ་རྨཱ་ཀ་ར།
  • d+ha rmA ka ra
  • Dharmākara

Indian scholar (Skt. upādhyāya ) who assisted the Tibetan translation of The Noble Dharma Discourse Describing the Benefits of Producing Representations of the Thus-Gone One , among other works.