Nanam Yeshe De
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Nanam Yeshe De (T. sna nam ye shes sde སྣ་ནམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་; Skt. Jñanasena) (mid 8th cent. - early 9th cent.) was a translator during the "early translation period" of Tibetan Buddhism. He is counted among the twenty-five disciples of Padmasambhava. He was also a student of Śrīsiṃha, from whom he received Dzogchen instructions.[1]
The 84000 glossary states:
- 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.[2]
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- He collaborated with some fifteen Indian scholars, among them Jinamitra, Śīlendrabodhi, and Dānaśīla, on the translation of as many as 347 different works, if the later canonical records are correct. His translations includes upwards of 163 Mahāyāna sūtras, among them the Prajñāpāramitā, Avataṃsakasūtra, and Ratnakūṭasūtra collections, translations of the Yogācārabhūmi and other basic Madhyamaka and Yogācāra treatises, as well as a number of works by his contemporaries Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla. He is also credited with the translation of tantric works that would come to be known as the “old translations” used by the rnyang ma sect.[1]
He was a native of the Nanam (T. sna nam) clan, also referred by the clan name Zhang.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. ye shes sde
- ↑
"Bandé Yeshé Dé", 84000 Glossary of Terms
Further reading
Nanam Yeshe De, Treasury of Lives
Ye_shes_sde, Tsadra Commons
Ye_shes_sde, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
Shyang Yeshé Dé, Rigpa Shedra Wiki- "Bandé Yeshé Dé", 84000 Glossary of Terms
- Sherab Rhaldi, Ye-Shes sDe: Tibetan Scholar and Saint in Bulletin of Tibetology vol. 38, 2002 (Available here)
