People/Jñānavajra

Jñānavajra(b. 12th century - )

There are multiple authors associated with this name, that were active in the 12th century who transmitted Tantric lineages that spread to Tibet. These include one from Kashmir (BDRC: P7148) and one from Nepal (BDRC: P4CZ15139). Some have also suggested that the author of the Tathāgatahṛdayālaṃkāra, a commentary on the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, was Chinese due to the colophon, which refers to the author as Rgya'i mkhan po. However, this could either refer to India (Rgya mkhar) or China (Rgya nag). Nevertheless, this is the only non-Tantric work attributed to an author by the name of Jñānavajra.

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Jñānavajra: Laṅkāvatāranāmamahāyānasūtravṛttitathāgatahṛdayālaṃkāra

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Jñānavajra's commentary on the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, which is one of two Indian commentaries on the Sūtra that has survived only in Tibetan translation.

RKTST 3358;Laṅkāvatārasūtra;Jñānavajra;Advayajñānavajra;lang kar gshegs pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'i 'grel pa de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i rgyan;ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན།;Laṅkāvatāranāmamahāyānasūtravṛttitathāgatahṛdayālaṃkāra;འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན།

Other names

• Advayajñānavajra · other names (Wylie)