84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ། | Glossary of Terms

  • བན་དེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།

  • བནྡེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།
  • ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།
  • སྣ་ནམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།
  • ye shes sde
  • ban de ye shes sde
  • ban+de ye shes sde
  • sna nam ye shes sde
  • none
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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 one hundred sixty sūtra translations and more than one hundred 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 teaching both sūtra and tantra widely to students of his own. He was also known as Nanam Yeshé Dé, from the Nanam (sna nam) clan.