Prajñāvarman (Tibetan: ''shes rab go cha'') within
early medieval literature
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, was an 8th-century
Buddhist writer. He lived during the reigns of the
Pala Pala may refer to:
Places
Chad
*Pala, Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Ouest
Estonia
*Pala, Kose Parish, village in Kose Parish, Harju County
* Pala, Kuusalu Parish, village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County
* Pala, Järva County, vi ...
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 Mahāp ...
.
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 ''