ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ། | Glossary of Terms

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

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

Chief editor of the translation program based in Samyé Monastery from the late eighth to early ninth century in Tibet. He was from the Nanam (sna nam) clan, and so is often called Nanam Yeshé Dé.

Chief editor of the translation program from the late eighth- to early ninth-century in Tibet.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

Tibetan translator who was active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. He participated in the translation of more than two hundred texts.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

Tibetan translator who was active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. He participated in the translation of more than two hundred texts.

A famous Tibetan translator and monk of the eighth to the ninth century, he translated into Tibetan and revised, in collaboration with various Indian scholars, more than two hundred and fifty texts of the Kangyur and Tengyur.

A prolific Tibetan translator in the eighth and ninth centuries. He was one of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche, and he assisted with the translation of more than three hundred texts that now appear in the Kangyur and Tengyur.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

See “Nanam Yeshé Dé.”

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

Tibetan prolific translator who was active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. He participated in the translation of more than two hundred texts.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth-centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

Important Tibetan translator and editor of many sūtras.

Tibetan translator who was active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. He participated in the translation of more than two hundred texts.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A famous Tibetan translator and monk of the eighth to the ninth century, who translated and revised in collaboration with various Indian scholars more than 250 texts of the Kangyur and Tengyur into Tibetan.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

Prolific translator and editor of a large number of sūtras, including Purification of Karmic Obscurations.

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.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. 

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

The monk Yeshé Dé, a prolific translator of sūtras.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

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.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator-editor who worked on many translations at Samyé, Tibet, during the reigns of the Tibetan kings Tri Songdetsen (ca. 742–800), Tri Desongtsen (r. 800–815), and Tri Ralpachen (ca. 806–838)

Disciple of Padmasambhava and translator.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

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

One of the three foremost translators of the Tibetan imperial era. A disciple of Padmasambhava and one of the main translators of the Kangyur.

The name of a Tibetan translator, active in Tibet in the ninth century, who translated many texts in the Kangyur.

The monk Yeshé Dé, the translator of the Sukhāvatī­vyūha­sūtra.

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.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

A prolific Tibetan translator of the eighth and ninth centuries who assisted with the translation of hundreds of texts that appear in the Kangyur and Tengyur.

An important translator of the Tibetan imperial period who lived during the eighth and ninth centuries.

An important translator of the Tibetan imperial period who lived during the eighth and ninth centuries.

Eighth-century Tibetan translator.

A prolific Tibetan translator active during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. He is credited with translating no fewer than 380 works.

Chief editor of the Tibetan translation of The White Lotus of the Good Dharma and the translation program from the late eighth to early ninth century in Tibet. From the Nanam (sna nam) clan.