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    Daṃṣṭrasena

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    A late eighth or early ninth century Kashmiri scholar, considered to be the author of at least one of the two “bṛhaṭṭīkā” commentaries on the long Prajñāpāramitā sūtras. The spellings Daṃṣṭrasena and Daṃṣṭrāsena are both found, as well as several alternatives such as Daṃṣṭasena and Diṣṭasena.

    Name Variants
    6 names
    Tibetan
    མཆེ་བའི་སྡེ
    mche ba’i sde
    Sanskrit
    daṃṣṭrasena,Daṃṣṭrasena,Daṃṣṭrasena (Diṣṭasena),daṃṣṭrāsena
    English
    Daṃṣṭrāsena
    Associated Works
    2 texts

    Texts in the Kangyur and Tengyur associated with this authority

    toh3807The Long Commentary on “The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines”Author
    ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་འབུམ་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ།shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa 'bum pa rgya cher 'grel pa/Śatasāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā­bṛhaṭṭīkā
    toh3808The Long Explanation of the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand, Twenty-Five Thousand, and Eighteen Thousand LinesAuthor
    འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་འབུམ་པ་དང་།་ཉི་ཁྲི་ལྔ་སྟོང་པ་དང་།་ཁྲི་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ
    ’phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa ’bum pa dang / nyi khri lnga stong pa dang / khri brgyad stong pa rgya cher bshad pa
    Ārya­śata­sāhasrikā­pañca­viṃśati­sāhasrikāṣṭā­daśa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā­bṛhaṭṭīkā