Avalokitavrata

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Avalokitavrata
MainNameTib	སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས
MainNameWylie	Spyan ras gzigs brtul zhugs
SortName	Avalokitavrata
YearBirth	8th century
ReligiousAffiliation	Svātantrika Madhyamaka
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Indian scholiast of the eighth century CE and successor to Bhāvaviveka [alt. Bhāvya] in the Svātantrika school of Madhyamaka. Avalokitavrata wrote the Prajñapradīpaṭīkā, an extensive subcommentary to Bhāvaviveka's Prajñāpradīpa, his commentary on Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, in which he defends Bhāvaviveka from Candrakīrti's critiques. That subcommentary is extant only in Tibetan translation. (Source: "Avalokitavrata." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 82. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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