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|DatesNotes=8th Century
|DatesNotes=8th Century
|ReligiousAffiliation=Svātantrika Madhyamaka
|ReligiousAffiliation=Svātantrika Madhyamaka
|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. (Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'' [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014], 82).
|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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PersonType Category:Classical Indian Authors
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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