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ཡེ་ཤེས་དེ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཡེ་ཤེས་དེ།

  • ye shes de
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  • Yeshé Dé
  • ཡེ་ཤེས་དེ།
  • ye shes de
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Yeshé Dé (late eighth to early ninth century) was the most prolific translator of sūtras into Tibetan. Altogether he is credited with the translation of more than 160 sūtra translations and more than 100 additional translations, mostly on tantric topics. In spite of Yeshé Dé’s great importance for the propagation of Buddhism in Tibet during the imperial era, only a few biographical details about this figure are known. Later sources describe him as a student of the Indian teacher Padmasambhava, and he is also credited with widely teaching both sūtra and tantra to students of his own.