Śākyaprabha
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Śākyaprabha (T. shAkya 'od ཤཱཀྱ་འོད་) (b. 8th century). An Indian master who was a crucial link in the transmission of the Vinaya to Tibet.
"Apparently from Kashmir, he was an expert in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. He is best known for his work Śrāmaṇeratriśatakakārikā (“Three Hundred Verses on the Novice”), to which he wrote an auto-commentary entitled Prabhāvatī."[1]
He was a disciple of Shantarakshita.[2]
In Tibet, he is included in the following groups of great Indian scholars:
- the Two Supreme Ones (mchog gnyis),[1] along with Gunaprabha, and
- the Seventeen Nalanda Masters
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Śākyaprabha
- ↑
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