དཔལ་བརྩེགས། | Glossary of Terms

Paltsek, from the village of Kawa north of Lhasa, was one of Tibet’s preeminent translators. He was one of the first seven Tibetans to be ordained by Śāntarakṣita and is counted as one of Guru Rinpoche’s twenty-five close disciples. In a famous verse by Ngok Lotsawa, Paltsek is named with Chokro Luyi Gyaltsen and Zhang Nanam Yeshé as part of a group of translators whose skills were surpassed only by Vairotsana. He translated works from a wide variety of genres, including sūtra, śāstra, vinaya, and tantra and was an author himself (for a list of his translations and writings, see Martin, 2011). Paltsek was also one of the most important editors of the early period, one of nine translators installed by Trisong Deutsen to supervise the translation of the Tripiṭaka and help catalogue translated works for the first two of three imperial catalogs (the ldan kar ma and bsam yas mchims phu ma catalogs, which were probably the initiative of Tride Songtsen; see Raine, 2010, 8).

One of the proofreaders of the Tibetan translation of the Vinayavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya.

Tibetan editor of The Good Eon.

Tibetan editor of the sūtra.

The editor of this discourse.

A famous Tibetan translator and monk of the eighth to the ninth century.

The senior editor-translator who edited and finalized this text.

A Tibetan translator (fl. late eighth–early ninth centuries).

Chief editor who finalized the Tibetan translation of The Noble Dharma Discourse Describing the Benefits of Producing Representations of the Thus-Gone One.

One of the greatest Tibetan translators, most commonly known as Kawa Paltsek. Kawa Paltsek lived in the eighth to ninth century. Translating numerous canonical texts, both sūtra and tantra, he became one of the most active translators of his time. He was one of the initial seven Tibetans to be ordained during the founding of the first Tibetan monastery of Samyé.