Vagishvarakirti

Vagishvarakirti (Skt. Vāgīśvarakīrti; T. ngag gi dbang phyug grags pa ངག་གི་དབང་ཕྱུག་གྲགས་པ་) (end of the 10th / beginning of the 11th century CE). An Indian scholar associated with Vikramashila monastic university.

The Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource states:

According to Tibetan sources, Vāgīśvarakīrti was one of those scholars known as the “six gate-keeping paṇḍitas” (mkhas pa sgo drug) of the Vikramaśīla monastic seminary, and “the keeper of the western gate” (nub sgo srung ba). Tāranathā states that his account is based on three Indian sources, but some Tibetan sources state that Vāgīśvarakīrti was the “keeper of the southern gate” (lho sgo srung ba) and Prajñākaramati the “keeper of the western gate” (nub sgo srung ba).

And also:

A close contemporary of Advayavajra was Vāgīśvarakīrti, who was best known for his argumentative works and passages concerning initiation, more specifically the fourth initiation (caturthābhiṣeka), of which he was an advocate.

External links

• ངག་གི་དབང་ཕྱུག་གྲགས་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
• Vagishvarakirti, Rigpa Shedra Wiki