Avalokitavrata
PersonType | Category:Classical Indian Authors |
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MainNamePhon | Avalokitavrata |
MainNameTib | སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས |
MainNameWylie | Spyan ras gzigs brtul zhugs |
DatesNotes | 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. |
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