Prajñāvarman (Tibetan: ''shes rab go cha'') within

early medieval literature This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during the 6th through 9th Centuries. The list is chronological, and does not include epigraphy or poetry. For poetry, see: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th century in po ...

, was an 8th-century Buddhist writer. He lived during the reigns of the

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king,

Gopala I Gopala (Bangla: গোপাল) (ruled c. 750s–770s CE) was the founder of the Pala dynasty of Bihar and Bengal regions of the Indian Subcontinent. The last morpheme of his name ''Pala'' means "protector" and was used as an ending for the name ...

and the Tibetan emperor

Trisong Detsen Tri Songdetsen () was the son of Me Agtsom, the 38th emperor of Tibet. He ruled from AD 755 until 797 or 804. Tri Songdetsen was the second of the Three Dharma Kings of Tibet, playing a pivotal role in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet and th ...

, under whose auspices he came to Tibet. He was a contemporary of

Jinamitra Jinamitra was an Indian pandita who travelled to Samye in the Tibetan Empire to engage in translation, at the time of Trisong Detsen, in the eighth century CE. Jinamitra worked with Jñānagarbha and Devacandra to translate the ''Mahāyāna Mahā ...

. Prajñāvarman contributed to the translation of 77 Buddhist works from Sanskrit into Tibetan and is the author of three commentaries preserved in the

Tengyur The Tengyur or Tanjur or Bstan-’gyur (Tibetan: "Translation of Teachings") is the Tibetan collection of commentaries to the Buddhist teachings, or "Translated Treatises". The Buddhist Canon To the Tengyur were assigned commentaries to b ...

, namely the ''Devātiśāyastotraṭīkā'' (), the ''Udānavargavivara'', and the ''Viśeṣastavaṭikā'' () a commentary on Udbhaṭasiddhasvāmin's '' Viśeṣastava''.Schneider, Johannes (1993). ''Der Lobpreis der Vorzüglichkeit des Buddha.'' Bonn: Indica et Tibetica Verlag. The ''Viśeṣastavaṭikā'' was translated into Tibetan by Rin-chen-bzang-po (958-1055) and Janārdhana. The Sanskrit original is now lost. Among his translations is the ''Abhayapradā-nāma-aparājita'' () co-translated with Ye shes sde (published as Tôh. no. 708 and no. 928). Derge Kanjur, vol. TSA, folios 176v.1-177v.6.)

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