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བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ། | Glossary of Terms

  • བི་དྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།

  • བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།
  • bid+yA ka ra pra b+ha
  • bidyA ka ra pra bha
  • bi dyA ka ra pra bha
  • vidyākara­prabha
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  • Vidyākaraprabha
  • བི་དྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།
  • bi dyA ka ra pra bha
  • vidyākaraprabha
Definition in this text:

According to Nyangral Nyimai Özer’s history, Ralpachen invited the Indian preceptor Vidyākaraprabha to Tibet along with Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, and Dānaśīla in the first part of the ninth century (Martin, 2002, n. 13). Vidyākaraprabha was the author of the Madhyamakanayasārasamāsaprakaraṇa, a work in the Yogācāra-Madhyamaka school pioneered by Śāntarakṣita (Ruegg, 1981, 99, n. 311), translated into Tibetan with Paltsek under the name dbu ma’i lugs kyi snying po mdor bsdus pa’i rab tu byed pa(Toh 3893, Degé Tengyur, vol. HA, folios 43b.5–50a.6). He worked with Paltsek on numerous other translations on topics as diverse as the Sphuṭārthā commentary to the Abhisamayālaṅkāra, an extract from Buddhaghoṣa’s Vimuktimārga, and the early tantra Vidyottamamahātantra (see Martin, 2006).

  • Vidyākaraprabha
  • བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།
  • bid+yA ka ra pra b+ha
  • vidyākaraprabha
Definition in this text:

One of the translators and proofreaders of the Tibetan Vinayavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya from India.

  • Vidyākaraprabha
  • བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།
  • bid+yA ka ra pra b+ha
  • vidyākara­prabha
Definition in this text:

According to Nyangral Nyima Öser’s history, Ralpachen invited the Indian abbot Vidyākaraprabha to Tibet along with Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, and Dānaśīla in the first part of the ninth century. Vidyākaraprabha was the author of the Madhyamaka­nayasāra­samāsa­prakaraṇa, a work in the Yogācāra-Madhyamaka school pioneered by Śāntarakṣita, translated into Tibetan with Paltsek under the name dbu ma’i lugs kyi snying po mdor bsdus pa’i rab tu byed pa (Toh 3893). He worked with Paltsek on numerous other translations on topics as diverse as the Sphuṭārthā commentary to the Abhisamayālaṅkāra, an extract from the Vimuktimārga, and the early Vidyottamamahātantra.

  • Vidyākaraprabha
  • བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།
  • bidyA ka ra pra bha
  • vidyākaraprabha
Definition in this text:

Indian preceptor, a translator of this text.

  • Vidyākaraprabha
  • བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ།
  • bid+yA ka ra pra b+ha
  • vidyākara­prabha
Definition in this text:

Indian paṇḍita active in the early ninth century who translated The Dhāraṇī for Secret Relics.